... in the USA bother to learn to program? When Johnny grows up and wants a program, he can just hire a Viruru in India to do it for less than he pays Juan at Taco Bell to make his lunch.
You nailed it. The key benefit of VB, from v1 to v6 was quick and easy development for simple windows applications.
These "code snobs" whining about VB not being a "real language" are all teensy weensy little cry-babes in soiled diapers.
They never programmed a Mac in Pascal or used C to make a WinSDK application a la Petzold. They have no clue how labor intense it was to make a GUI application (for Mac or Windows) before VB1 came along and changed the development paradigm.
(Sure there were some obscure languages that had similar features, but none of them ever went anywhere and none of them ever would).
as in MS s flailing around, trying to find a way to get a solid grip on a world that is fast passing them by.
As a software developer with 2 years of Java experience and 2 years of.NET experience in the last 4 years, all I can say is...you're insane..NET makes Java and its' defenders look stupid and unproductive. Only a religious developer could use both products for 6-12 months and prefer Java and Java tools to C# and.NET and the MS IDE.
I don't love or hate Microsoft or Sun or Apple or IBM or Oracle or any other large company. My favorite all-time development tool is Pascal as implemented by Borland in 1985.
If they can put it on your roof and have it cost you $0.05 / kWH for a single house or apartment buildling, then they can compete, because there's no transmission costs.
But they speak of scaled-up commercial installations, and in that case you or the original author has confused cost and price.
Utilities generate for less than $0.05 / kWH. They generate for about $0.02-$0.03 depending on the technology and the organization's efficiency.
Then they transmit to your home. That adds more cost. Then they add a bit of profit and some taxes. In Minnesota, they sell us juice for between $0.07 and $0.10 / kWH.
It's great if they can indeed get scaled-up commercial installation costs down to $0.05, but they still need to cut the price in half to compete with directly with coal.
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... in the USA bother to learn to program? When Johnny grows up and wants a program, he can just hire a Viruru in India to do it for less than he pays Juan at Taco Bell to make his lunch.
These "code snobs" whining about VB not being a "real language" are all teensy weensy little cry-babes in soiled diapers.
They never programmed a Mac in Pascal or used C to make a WinSDK application a la Petzold. They have no clue how labor intense it was to make a GUI application (for Mac or Windows) before VB1 came along and changed the development paradigm.
(Sure there were some obscure languages that had similar features, but none of them ever went anywhere and none of them ever would).
The guy must have pissed on his boss because he got side-tracked onto a dead-end project Hailstorm...they should code-named it Sisyphus.
But they speak of scaled-up commercial installations, and in that case you or the original author has confused cost and price.
Utilities generate for less than $0.05 / kWH. They generate for about $0.02-$0.03 depending on the technology and the organization's efficiency.
Then they transmit to your home. That adds more cost. Then they add a bit of profit and some taxes. In Minnesota, they sell us juice for between $0.07 and $0.10 / kWH.
It's great if they can indeed get scaled-up commercial installation costs down to $0.05, but they still need to cut the price in half to compete with directly with coal.