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Rob Beard wrote: > Steven Côté wrote: > >> what does .net allow me to do, run applications within a browser, i >> >> never really understood all of this, I am not a programmer. >> >> >> Well, I am a programmer and I fail to understand it as well, so don't >> feel bad. >> >> I had a chance to sit down with a friend of min the other week and he >> tried to explain to me why .net was awesome and he failed to come up >> with a single technical reason that could not be met using existing >> technology. >> >> I use the caveat word 'technical' because there are good business >> reasons. I use the caveat word 'good' because those reasons usually >> sound something like "everyone else uses .net, so now we have to as well." >> > > LOL just like, everyone uses Windows so we must use it too. :-) > > I used to enjoy programming in Visual Basic (and before that Quick Basic > and GWBasic, and before that Locomotive Basic on the Amstrad CPC). > Granted I'm not a great programmer, I can write applications usually to > do what I want but I know I have a few bad habits when it comes to > writing code. > > Now I dabbled with Visual Basic.NET a couple of years back basically > because Microsoft were giving away a version for free (plus Visual > C#.Net etc) but I couldn't get on with it. I did try and persevere with > it but the help was awful and I ended up just getting cheesed off with > it. I still have a copy of Visual Basic 3 Standard with the rather good > manuals somewhere but alas I can't write 32-Bit (or 64-Bit) applications > on it. :-( > > I'm looking at learning another programming language now. I'm very > reluctant to learn *.NET, I think now I'd rather learn C or Assembler > (maybe 68k Assembler) instead (just as something to do, I do realise > that 68k Assembler is probably not much use now unless I'm writing > homebrew software for the ST or Amiga). > > Rob > > > Do you have a particular use for a new language? I'd suggest an Object Oriented language - though the problems you found with .NET may have been due to OO concepts which are often badly explained and introduced. Tom te tom te tom Tom te tom te tom -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html