an outstanding interview with the person who might be the VB architect
at MSFT and a brilliant fellow, Dave Thomas, who amoung many other
things is self described as "one of the godfathers of the eclipse
IDE":
http://channel9.msdn.com/showpost.aspx?postid=349220
notice how Erik from MSFT comes close to conceding that the CLR, large
framework way of doing things which is C# and VB, is inferior to using
languages suited to the task at hand, running in what I think they
refer to as virtual machines.
"... a simple functional extension to something like SQL could easily
solve 80-90% of the applications people write..."
"... I find it hard to believe people would build business
applications in Java or C# ..."
"... normal people are never going to be programming multi cores ..."
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