On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 13:05, Carl Jokl <[email protected]> wrote: > If the job advertisements are anything to go by in the UK there still > seem to be quite a few posts going for VB .Net developers. Perhaps you > mean classic VB. Office still uses VBA and didn't move that to > VB .Net.
It starts by the fact that the whole MS Office suite still contains a lot of old VBA/COM stuff. At least ASFAIK. Don't know about MS Office 2010. > It VB stuck to being used for what it was designed for then i.e. a COM > scripting language it was fine for that but things got ugly when > people decided to try and build enterprise grade applications in VB > which the language was never designed for. VB was/is used in a lot of big applications although I don't know any server part of an enterprise app that was written in VB - but at client side a lot of big apps have been written in VB. E.g. for classic DB-Server + Client application. I don't want to argue about VB as it served me well for many years. When I started using it, I was much more convinced and exited as when trying .NET (Java was more appealing then for me). > Much as I am not as enthusiastic about Java as I once was that hasn't > seemed to push me toward another platform. It is the community that > makes me want to stay with Java. I underestimated how valuable/good > the Java community is until I lost it. I gained this only short time ago and already don't want to miss it. I have seen people doing Firefox embedding and a lot of other very interesting stuff - really awesome people doing awesome stuff. Some things maybe got so "normal" for the posse members but for a lot of other people would be still new stuff. I know Java developers who only focus on a small portion (not talking only about those with focus on Swing client development or others on web development). -- Martin Wildam -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
