really, don't read this if you have an aversion to windows.
right, i'm getting to be an old fart (and this is going to talk about some windows and worse...) and i can remember loads of up-their-own-**** C++ guys banging on about how slooooow VB was, erm mid-90s, when all it was doing was windows dialogs, all video blits really.
suffice to say they had lots of fun sending MFC WM_OPEN_THE_WINDOW_WITH_A_BLEEP messages to some grim looping CPU hogger while some dumbass VB programmer would type formHello.open() or whatever... the VB guys were a bit lost with the multi-threading but actually got a lot more work done.
end of the day, if you wanted to be precise about shit, you didn't use VB. if you want to be really fast about shit, don't use java. but if you ain't a fricking superstar, don't get hung up on C++ (since when is complex good? oops...) because you're probably screwing things up yourself much worse than any language ever did... most of us just aren't good enough, use what's simple and availabe, imho.
thing is, there's a frickin LOT of people with java compatible phones, on them all the time, there's a lot to think about beyond computing perfection here...
sorry, had beers, i just re-read and that was rubbish, but i'm not a bad person, honest,
i use linux everyday,
i think google is broken,
um, whatever else is cool,
dan.
really, don't read this if you have an aversion to windows.
right, i'm getting to be an old fart (and this is going to talk about some windows and worse...) and i can remember loads of up-their-own-**** C++ guys banging on about how slooooow VB was, erm mid-90s, when all it was doing was windows dialogs, all video blits really.
suffice to say they had lots of fun sending MFC WM_OPEN_THE_WINDOW_WITH_A_BLEEP messages to some grim looping CPU hogger while some dumbass VB programmer would type formHello.open() or whatever... the VB guys were a bit lost with the multi-threading but actually got a lot more work done.
end of the day, if you wanted to be precise about shit, you didn't use VB. if you want to be really fast about shit, don't use java. but if you ain't a fricking superstar, don't get hung up on C++ (since when is complex good? oops...) because you're probably screwing things up yourself much worse than any language ever did... most of us just aren't good enough, use what's simple and availabe, imho.
thing is, there's a frickin LOT of people with java compatible phones, on them all the time, there's a lot to think about beyond computing perfection here...
sorry, had beers, i just re-read and that was rubbish, but i'm not a bad person, honest,
i use linux everyday,
i think google is broken,
um, whatever else is cool,
dan.
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really, don't read this if you have an aversion to windows.
right, i'm getting to be an old fart (and this is going to talk about some windows and worse...) and i can remember loads of up-their-own-**** C++ guys banging on about how slooooow VB was, erm mid-90s, when all it was doing was windows dialogs, all video blits really.
suffice to say they had lots of fun sending MFC WM_OPEN_THE_WINDOW_WITH_A_BLEEP messages to some grim looping CPU hogger while some dumbass VB programmer would type formHello.open() or whatever... the VB guys were a bit lost with the multi-threading but actually got a lot more work done.
end of the day, if you wanted to be precise about shit, you didn't use VB. if you want to be really fast about shit, don't use java. but if you ain't a fricking superstar, don't get hung up on C++ (since when is complex good? oops...) because you're probably screwing things up yourself much worse than any language ever did... most of us just aren't good enough, use what's simple and availabe, imho.
thing is, there's a frickin LOT of people with java compatible phones, on them all the time, there's a lot to think about beyond computing perfection here...
sorry, had beers, i just re-read and that was rubbish, but i'm not a bad person, honest,
i use linux everyday,
i think google is broken,
um, whatever else is cool,
dan.
really, don't read this if you have an aversion to windows.
right, i'm getting to be an old fart (and this is going to talk about some windows and worse...) and i can remember loads of up-their-own-**** C++ guys banging on about how slooooow VB was, erm mid-90s, when all it was doing was windows dialogs, all video blits really.
suffice to say they had lots of fun sending MFC WM_OPEN_THE_WINDOW_WITH_A_BLEEP messages to some grim looping CPU hogger while some dumbass VB programmer would type formHello.open() or whatever... the VB guys were a bit lost with the multi-threading but actually got a lot more work done.
end of the day, if you wanted to be precise about shit, you didn't use VB. if you want to be really fast about shit, don't use java. but if you ain't a fricking superstar, don't get hung up on C++ (since when is complex good? oops...) because you're probably screwing things up yourself much worse than any language ever did... most of us just aren't good enough, use what's simple and availabe, imho.
thing is, there's a frickin LOT of people with java compatible phones, on them all the time, there's a lot to think about beyond computing perfection here...
sorry, had beers, i just re-read and that was rubbish, but i'm not a bad person, honest,
i use linux everyday,
i think google is broken,
um, whatever else is cool,
dan.