RE: Microsoft Tries to Cozy Up to Mainframe, iSeries Users

["Joe Pluta" <joepluta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> From: Steve Richter
> 
> 
> What can I say, James, that is my judgement after 5 years experience
> coding
> in Windows. ( FWIW I give similar high praise to programming on the
as400
> )
> C# and VB are easy to learn, the win32 api is very well done, C++ is a
> great
> language and the visual studio editor is as extensible as you want to
make
> it.

I may be confused here, but C++ is not a Microsoft language.

C# is similar to Java with some of the C++ crap put back into it, like
operator overloading and the goto operation.

VB is BASIC, and while it's a very nice BASIC, it's still BASIC.  I have
problems using BASIC for production programming, but that's me.

And the win32 API, well, I worked with Windows APIs for years, and I've
never seen a worse API.  But that's just my judgment.

Joe