Java and VB.NET

[pinster]

I just realize that VB.NET is very similar to Java!! Everything is an object!! Including data types and arrays... Which means to say that Java Programmers are easier to port into VB.NET!!

Too bad!! If I could have learn Java at the ealier time...

 

[Divil]

Thats nice

 

[Anis]

hmmm...
VB.NET offers the full features of an OOP language. While VB 6 dont support things like implementation, inheritence ,real polymorphism and method overloading etc. It do, but to certain extent.. I will say limited!..

So, Java programmers might like it!..

But i dont think they will gonna move towards VB.Net. I have some feedback about it, and i guess those who are doing Java deeply, dont want to move back.. Like ME, who dont want to do Java, even i know it well!.


I just Love VB!

 

[Thinker]

I have been saying this for a long time now. MS didnt roll over
and die when they lost their lawsuit with Sun, they just decided to
reinvent java and call it something else.

 

[Anis]

Looks very true thinker!...
I have heard VB.Net will be a competitor of java in near future.

 

[Thinker]

It isnt just VB.Net, it is all the .Net languages. They are all based
on the same runtime. The .Net framework is MS answer to the
jave virtual machine.

 

[Divil]

Thinker, you make MS sound quite nasty when you say that, which I suppose they are if you look at it in a certain way. Certainly if they were using their monopoly to try and beat Java.

Truth is, theyve come up with a better solution.

 

[pinster]

And .NET framework will most probably be the winner of this competition because I have seen what VB.NET can but Java cannot even with the latest Java SDK 1.4!

In fact, learning either .NET or Java will bring advantages to the programmers.. because as I said, they are quite similar.. and it lowers the learning curve for either programmers...

 

[Thinker]

Originally posted by divil
...Certainly if they were using their monopoly to try and beat Java.

Truth is, theyve come up with a better solution.

It can be both. The point is, it isnt revolutionary, it is merely
evolutionary, and hardly original.

 

[reboot]

re: Thinker

The point is, it isnt revolutionary, it is merely
evolutionary, and hardly original.

Well... yeah. But then, youd be hard pressed to name an MS application that you couldnt say that about. Its been their trademark since they started. All the way back to the original DOS (no, Bill Gates didnt write it, he bought it).

 

[Thinker]

Quite true, thus I can never seem to get over the surprise that
people express when I or someone else tells them that the latest
and greatest from MS is just version x of someone elses idea.

I always thought it was an advantage when learning something
new, to understand its roots. Chances are, once the latest lingo
has been translated into terms I already know, I am 75-90% of
the way in completely understanding it.

 

[shadowskull]

Just curiousity, what do all those labels under everyones name mean? ie. Im labeled as "NewComer", Thinker is called "Alpha Geek", etc. etc.

 

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