Richard One minute you say 400K use C#, I've had 6 Million as the number of VB Programmers, which make 6.7% if all C# programmers came from VB, I don't consider that a "large number"
Neven ----- Original Message ----- From: "Richard Vowles" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, January 27, 2004 12:01 PM Subject: RE: [DUG] [OFF-TOPIC] Delphi 8 and .net > Most of the major consulting companies - Gartner, Meta, etc say that C# > will be around 1/2 of the VB developers. A large number of VB developers > have moved across to C#. > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On Behalf Of Neven MacEwan > Sent: Tuesday, 27 January 2004 11:59 a.m. > To: NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List > Subject: Re: [DUG] [OFF-TOPIC] Delphi 8 and .net > > > I find that statement a bit hard to believe. > Why? > > > What do you base that on? > Based on the fact that there are several million VB programmers out > there and billions of lines of VB code, It will take a long time for > that to get out of the system (see recent threads about COBOL & > FORTRAN). The logical jump is a/ We have a VB App b/ Lets port it to > VB.net 'cause Bill told us too c/ Hey there this thing called > Middleware..we can make our app n+ tier, the Marketing guys said its > good d/ I can write this in VB too! > > > > _______________________________________________ > Delphi mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://ns3.123.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi > > > _______________________________________________ Delphi mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://ns3.123.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi
