// Nothing is "always." Almost always? I was thinking of how easy it is to do stuff in VB and how hard it is to do much of anything in C (or FoxPro as I still don't know it well enough).
// Define "productive." "Hello world" in ten seconds. Mastery in ten / /years. You pick. I guess it does take about ten years to reach even a semblance of mastery. Is Cobol really that bad? "The Tao gave birth to machine language. Machine language gave birth to assembler." "The assembler gave birth to the compiler. Now there are ten thousand languages." "Each language has its purpose, however humble. Each language expresses the yin and yang of software. Each language has its place within the Tao." "But do not program in Cobol if you can avoid it." The Tao of Programming, Geoffrey James, 1987. -- Ted Roche Ted Roche & Associates, LLC http://www.tedroche.com [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
