Re: Just for curiosity...

From: Perfect Reign (theperfectreign_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 03/24/05 

Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2005 09:22:32 -0800

On Thu, 24 Mar 2005 09:11:27 -0700, someone posing as ray donned fireproof
bloomers and chiseled in the wall:

> On Thu, 24 Mar 2005 07:32:02 -0800, Perfect Reign wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 23 Mar 2005 20:05:28 -0500, someone posing as Tom Horsley donned
>> fireproof bloomers and chiseled in the wall:
>>
>>> Any recommendations for a toolkit/language combination
>>> for writing the user interface of a GUI application?
>>> There are so many possibilities out there to
>>> investigate I'd like some directions to start looking :-).
>>
>> Use VB6. It works great.
>>
>> /me ducks and runs...
>
> I used to use vb (under duress) and it seemed like with each new version
> there were problems updating previously written projects. IMHO vb is all
> right to play around with, but I'd never use it for serious work.

Heh, I've been using it "for serious work" since '94. For our client
server development here where I work (large county), VB6 is the language of
choice right now.

I'm trying to change all that, however.

I really like the model you see in the "C" languages such as
Java/C++/C#/Mono/PHP, and I'm pushing that we move in this direction.

However, I've got a major uphill battle ahead. (This doesn't even count
what I'll have to do to convince the 50+ COBOL guys/gals who are just now
learning VB.NET.)

As it is, I feel I scored a victory the other day. In pushing for a new web
server the choice was made (based on my recommendation) to go with
SLES/Apache/Tomcat instead of W2003/IIS. Woohoo!

I can see it now, "gee why can't we run these COM+ apps under Apache?" 

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