VBScript and VB programmers thrown in trash heap by Microsoft

<i><b>Originally posted by : Tom Terrific (tom@terrific.com)</b></i><br />ASP+ does not use VBScript at all; Microsoft is throwing these programmers away.<br /><br />And the new VB is a new language - it really isn't VB anymore, it is a copy of PowerBuilder's <br />PowerScript language with all it's inheritance and encapsulation and polymorphism, which <br />will require years for VB programmers to understand.<br /><br />Microsoft is willing to (try) throw away all the VBScript ASP developers to dominate the web.<br /><br />And they are willing to keep their VB programmers running like gerbils on an exercise wheel <br />to monopolize a market. Of course, VB programmers aren't too bright anyway. Which brings<br />up the coup de grace: how can you get a bunch of dumb VB programmers to embrace <br />sophisticated OOP methodologies anyway, when they can barely deal with simple <br />components?<br /><br />And what about all that legacy VBScript and VB code that will have to be "upgraded" to the <br />new version??

<i><b>Originally posted by : David Wadleigh (terrific@terrific.com)</b></i><br />The fool :<br /><br />>>Tom Terrific at 7/16/2000 4:21:53 PM<br /><br />who posted the start of this thread is not only too cowardly to put his real name on his posts, he goes a step further and spoofs a nonexistent email address at my domain - terrific.com<br /><br />That way, as postmaster of terrific.com I get all the junk mail he creates. The same guy runs around signing up for all manner of websites and so I get all kinds of crap as a result.<br /><br />Just wanted everyone to know what sort of a cowardly and inconsiderate twit wrote the root post here.<br />

<i><b>Originally posted by : Cander</b></i><br />Hes just another anti-Microsoft-for-no-plausible-reason jerk that have sprung up since the anti-trust case!<br /><br /><br />------------<br />David Wadleigh at 7/17/2000 8:26:34 PM<br /><br />The fool :<br /><br />>>Tom Terrific at 7/16/2000 4:21:53 PM<br /><br />who posted the start of this thread is not only too cowardly to put his real name on his posts, he goes a step further and spoofs a nonexistent email address at my domain - terrific.com<br /><br />That way, as postmaster of terrific.com I get all the junk mail he creates. The same guy runs around signing up for all manner of websites and so I get all kinds of crap as a result.<br /><br />Just wanted everyone to know what sort of a cowardly and inconsiderate twit wrote the root post here.<br />

<i><b>Originally posted by : Glenn Kunsman (glenn@rdsinc.net)</b></i><br />If he were a VB programmer, and not someone who cut and pastes vbscript without understanding the language, he would be excited!<br /><br />vbscript is a subset of visual basic, which has had some serious short falls. I think this will be a big step in addressing these issues and making visual basic a true web enabled language.<br /><br />I think vbscript should be thrown away (heard of weak typing). If the web is going to replace the desk top then the language needs to support the process - Microsoft tossed out vbscript to meet an immediate need. Finally, VB will replace vbscript and allow for the kind of development that was not possible ...visual basic programmers can use vbscript. Vbscript programmers tend to have difficulty with visual basic (in my limited experience).<br /><br />I plan on embracing C# and can't wait for visual studio 7 and asp+<br /><br /><br /><br />------------<br />Cander at 7/18/2000 9:07:16 AM<br /><br />Hes just another anti-Microsoft-for-no-plausible-reason jerk that have sprung up since the anti-trust case!<br /><br /><br />------------<br />David Wadleigh at 7/17/2000 8:26:34 PM<br /><br />The fool :<br /><br />>>Tom Terrific at 7/16/2000 4:21:53 PM<br /><br />who posted the start of this thread is not only too cowardly to put his real name on his posts, he goes a step further and spoofs a nonexistent email address at my domain - terrific.com<br /><br />That way, as postmaster of terrific.com I get all the junk mail he creates. The same guy runs around signing up for all manner of websites and so I get all kinds of crap as a result.<br /><br />Just wanted everyone to know what sort of a cowardly and inconsiderate twit wrote the root post here.<br />