[Gllug] OT(ish): Advice

[Richard Hillesley]

>
> I agree that previous versions of VB were, in part, incompatible with
> their predecessors but to a degree VB.net is a totally new language,
> closer to how VB should have been from the start - and C# IS a totally
> new language. 

and here's betting that VB.net 2 and c# 2 will be totally new languages too
(It has taken at least 7 iterations to get to where "VB should have been at 
the start" - maybe VB should have been C++ from the start, and C# should have
been Java,  and maybe  then interoperability would not be an issue. 

> Microsoft are "betting the ranch" on these technologies
> and, as the Office suits have stabilised in file format and
> inter-operability, I believe that Microsoft have reached a similar
> point with their development environments now - you're unlikely to find
> huge changes leading to incompatibilities anymore.

"stabilised in file format and inter-operability" ? Really?
My feeling is that, If you want to learn about ptogramming, it is better to go 
the whole hog and learn how to program without visual programming tools - it 
will give you a much broader education in programming, and qualify you
for a much wider range of jobs, on a wider range of platforms, and you won't 
have to spend vast sums of money on the visual tools to start you off.
(I also think that .NET is going to be another lock-in lock-out mechanism for 
defeating interoperability - especially on the net).   

> Whilst it may not end up with the highest paying job or
> a job on the world's most esoteric platform 

?


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