[geeks] Oh my god... {VB}

[Dave McGuire]

On Friday, November 29, 2002, at 12:21 PM, Chris Hedemark wrote:
>>>   Who?  Where?
>>
>> Pfizer.  Armstrong World Industries. Fog Creek Software (OK, they 
>> aren't
>> that big, but their leader, Joel Spolsky, has a fair amount of fame in
>> certain less acedemic programming circles).  Ryder.  Microhelp (Their
>> uninstaller product was written in VB, but I think the company has 
>> gone
>> out of business).  These are just off the top of my head.
>
> Also lots of it in the North Carolina state government, several of the 
> southeastern major regional financial institutions and Merck & Co.
>
> Lots of the real work gets done on the back end (client server model) 
> but VB is "good enough" for a pretty end user GUI, and actually has 
> decent RDBMS integration.

   So you say it's being used to build interfaces to real data 
processing systems?  I suppose I can buy that, even if I've never seen 
one.  But then, what does it matter, because Josh has already 
established that I don't know anything about the industry, even after 
seventeen years as a professional software developer.

        -Dave

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