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

Joe,
You are right on the mark.  Microsoft pushes their C# (pronounced C-sharp) and 
from what I have heard it is more like Java than C++ from say a *NIX or Linux 
implementation.
Any ideas how on how to get a VB client app over to a Java?  I have one of 
those *UGLY projects coming up in the near future.
Regards,
Mike Shaw


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> > 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 
> 
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