VB.Net I HATE IT

septoid2 · 12-13-2005, 12:33 AM

I can't take it. I tried to like it, I tried to learn it. I HATE IT!! I hate EVERYTHING about the Visual Studio.NET platform, from the ASP.Net to the J# and the VB.Net, I hate it! Visual Basic being my first programming language to ever learn, which btw, I still don't know how to use, was really a struggle for me to really get interested in it. HTML, Javascript, PHP, all of these I picked up just by reading about them, but the visual studio languages are another story totally.

Man... yeah...

duncan · 12-13-2005, 09:50 PM

Computer languages are similar to human languages in that, the first one you learn always makes more sense than the others and you forever compare, but different computer languages developed from different purposes and that's the best way to look at it I fnd... If you can do everything in a language that you know and like then stick to it, but you may only discover the restrictions of a language by trying a new one... I learnt Java first and thought it was all I ever needed - I was then forced to learn Visual Basic and didn't like it because I was comapring it's structure to Java, I don't really like VB.Net either at the moment, but I'm about to learn C++.Net because I know that it has a lot to offer for the internet. In general though, I'm always advising people not to learn new languages unless they need to. You can spend too long learning alternatives and not actually use your knowledge very much. Lots of programmers do this, desperate to "know" every language. So there....

TheHeadFL · 12-14-2005, 05:26 PM

If you were good at PHP, take a look at C++.NET or C#.NET. They would be much more to your tastes.

I personally am dropping C++ for C#.NET because I feel that C++ is being left behind in terms of support in the .NET platform.

But, really, all the .NET languages are so similar that I could easily translate any solution from VB to C# to C++, etc.

12-13-2005, 12:33 AM	#1 (permalink)
septoid2 Ultra Techie Join Date: Aug 2005 Posts: 772	VB.Net I HATE IT I can't take it. I tried to like it, I tried to learn it. I HATE IT!! I hate EVERYTHING about the Visual Studio.NET platform, from the ASP.Net to the J# and the VB.Net, I hate it! Visual Basic being my first programming language to ever learn, which btw, I still don't know how to use, was really a struggle for me to really get interested in it. HTML, Javascript, PHP, all of these I picked up just by reading about them, but the visual studio languages are another story totally. Man... yeah...

12-14-2005, 05:26 PM	#3 (permalink)
TheHeadFL Ultra Techie Join Date: Jul 2005 Posts: 530	If you were good at PHP, take a look at C++.NET or C#.NET. They would be much more to your tastes. I personally am dropping C++ for C#.NET because I feel that C++ is being left behind in terms of support in the .NET platform. But, really, all the .NET languages are so similar that I could easily translate any solution from VB to C# to C++, etc. __________________ Desktop machine: 2 x Opteron 246, Asus K8N-DL, 2GB PC3200 ECC Reg., XFX GeForce 6600GT, 74gb WD Raptor, 2 x 19\" LCDs, Windows XP x64 Server machine: Intel P4 3.0GHz 2MB EM64T, ECS i865pe, 1GB PC3200, 36gb WD Raptor, Windows Server 2003 Laptop: Dell Inspiron 9100 (Intel P4 3.2GHz 1MB Prescott, i865pe, 512MB PC3200, Mobility Radeon 9700, DVD+R/DL Burner), Windows XP Linux: P3 450Mhz, 386MB ram, Slackware 10.1 (Running mySQL/Apache)

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12-13-2005, 09:50 PM	#2 (permalink)
duncan True Techie Join Date: Nov 2004 Posts: 133	Computer languages are similar to human languages in that, the first one you learn always makes more sense than the others and you forever compare, but different computer languages developed from different purposes and that's the best way to look at it I fnd... If you can do everything in a language that you know and like then stick to it, but you may only discover the restrictions of a language by trying a new one... I learnt Java first and thought it was all I ever needed - I was then forced to learn Visual Basic and didn't like it because I was comapring it's structure to Java, I don't really like VB.Net either at the moment, but I'm about to learn C++.Net because I know that it has a lot to offer for the internet. In general though, I'm always advising people not to learn new languages unless they need to. You can spend too long learning alternatives and not actually use your knowledge very much. Lots of programmers do this, desperate to "know" every language. So there....