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  • C Christopher Duncan

    Hmmm. Interesting logic. Let's say that I belong to a small tribe, an obscure race of people in the jungle with only 1000 people in our entire culture. What would your reaction be if I said that there were far more inferior Indians than people of my culture, because you have millions of people in your country and I only have 1000? I realize that this is all just troll bait to begin with, but the implication, subtle or not, is that MS developers are in general inferior to JSEE developers. And that's about as silly as my contrived example. A good programmer is a good programmer. Language is irrelevant (because if it's not, then he's not a good programmer). Shame on you, Nish. You're too smart to fall for silliness of this nature. Chistopher Duncan Author - The Career Programmer: Guerilla Tactics for an Imperfect World (Apress)

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    Christopher Duncan wrote: A good programmer is a good programmer. Language is irrelevant (because if it's not, then he's not a good programmer). Hey, that's what I said! ... 'Developers should be distinguished by their experience and the area of software development they work in, not the language they "prefer" to use' "The folly of man is that he dreams of what he can never achieve rather than dream of what he can."

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      Christopher Duncan wrote: Oh, my. I can see what happens next. Now where did I put that asbestos suit? Actually he's sorta right. Even if only 20% of MS coders are bad compared to 80% of Java coders, there are still more bad MS coders than Java coders because the number of MS coders far far exceeds the number of Java coders [assuming people who use VB can be classified as coders] Nish


      Author of the romantic comedy Summer Love and Some more Cricket [New Win] Review by Shog9 Click here for review[NW]

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      Nishant S wrote: [assuming people who use VB can be classified as coders] See, now that's just mean - I keep trying to get a VB programming friend of mine to look in on the Code Project. What's he going to think when he sees this sort of thing? (assuming he can find the power switch on the computer - only joking) :) "The folly of man is that he dreams of what he can never achieve rather than dream of what he can."

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        Christopher Duncan wrote: A good programmer is a good programmer. Language is irrelevant (because if it's not, then he's not a good programmer). Hey, that's what I said! ... 'Developers should be distinguished by their experience and the area of software development they work in, not the language they "prefer" to use' "The folly of man is that he dreams of what he can never achieve rather than dream of what he can."

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        phykell wrote: Hey, that's what I said! ... :-O Oops... Indeed you did, and much more eloquently than I! :-D Chistopher Duncan Author - The Career Programmer: Guerilla Tactics for an Imperfect World (Apress)

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          Christopher Duncan wrote: Oh, my. I can see what happens next. Now where did I put that asbestos suit? Actually he's sorta right. Even if only 20% of MS coders are bad compared to 80% of Java coders, there are still more bad MS coders than Java coders because the number of MS coders far far exceeds the number of Java coders [assuming people who use VB can be classified as coders] Nish


          Author of the romantic comedy Summer Love and Some more Cricket [New Win] Review by Shog9 Click here for review[NW]

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          I'm relatively sure that he meant statistically, e.g. a percentage. evilpen dot net :: gpg public key (ascii-armored)

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          • P Paul Watson

            Nishant S wrote: assuming people who use VB can be classified as coders *sigh*

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            Paul Watson wrote: *sigh* :laugh: Don't be feeling that way, Paul... I like VB better, too, though mainly because I have so little time to learn and practice, and VB doesn't require much to get started. A quick and dirty utility I may need only once can be banged out in VB in an hour, while doing the same in VC would take me two weeks of alternating between searching through endless docs for what I need and trying out different code until it works cleanly. "Knock, knock." "Who's there?" "Recursion." "Recursion who?" "Knock, knock..."

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            • B Brian Azzopardi

              Nishant S wrote: A good majority of J2EE guys work without any kind of Development Interface Sun provides a free Forte for Java Community edition which is a pretty full featured IDE. There is also a free version of JBuilder IIRC. Nishant S wrote: In my company the Java people use either Ultraedit [on win32] or emacs [Linux] What!:wtf:! They don't use Vi? Shurely shome mishtake? bibamus, edamus, cras moriemur

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              Brian Azzopardi wrote: What!! They don't use Vi? Shurely shome mishtake? They'd better dump both Ultraedit and Emacs and use VIM - the best freely available editor on earth! ;P;P;P

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                Brian Azzopardi wrote: What!! They don't use Vi? Shurely shome mishtake? They'd better dump both Ultraedit and Emacs and use VIM - the best freely available editor on earth! ;P;P;P

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                Haim Yulzari wrote: ;P;P;P What's happened to the smilies? :omg::omg::omg:

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                • C Christopher Duncan

                  Hmmm. Interesting logic. Let's say that I belong to a small tribe, an obscure race of people in the jungle with only 1000 people in our entire culture. What would your reaction be if I said that there were far more inferior Indians than people of my culture, because you have millions of people in your country and I only have 1000? I realize that this is all just troll bait to begin with, but the implication, subtle or not, is that MS developers are in general inferior to JSEE developers. And that's about as silly as my contrived example. A good programmer is a good programmer. Language is irrelevant (because if it's not, then he's not a good programmer). Shame on you, Nish. You're too smart to fall for silliness of this nature. Chistopher Duncan Author - The Career Programmer: Guerilla Tactics for an Imperfect World (Apress)

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                  Nish Nishant
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                  Christopher Duncan wrote: A good programmer is a good programmer. Language is irrelevant (because if it's not, then he's not a good programmer). Yeah, but that doesn't mean he can't decide to use the best of the languages he knows how to use. Christopher Duncan wrote: Shame on you, Nish. You're too smart to fall for silliness of this nature. If you knew all the silly things I've did then you wouldn't call me smart. My smartness is unfortunately not uniform. It's spread out in different levels all over the place. I am sorta okay at some stuff and a total fool at others :-( Nish


                  Author of the romantic comedy Summer Love and Some more Cricket [New Win] Review by Shog9 Click here for review[NW]

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                  • N Nish Nishant

                    Christopher Duncan wrote: A good programmer is a good programmer. Language is irrelevant (because if it's not, then he's not a good programmer). Yeah, but that doesn't mean he can't decide to use the best of the languages he knows how to use. Christopher Duncan wrote: Shame on you, Nish. You're too smart to fall for silliness of this nature. If you knew all the silly things I've did then you wouldn't call me smart. My smartness is unfortunately not uniform. It's spread out in different levels all over the place. I am sorta okay at some stuff and a total fool at others :-( Nish


                    Author of the romantic comedy Summer Love and Some more Cricket [New Win] Review by Shog9 Click here for review[NW]

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                    Nishant S wrote: I am sorta okay at some stuff and a total fool at others I believe you just summed up the entire human race in one simple sentance. :-) Chistopher Duncan Author - The Career Programmer: Guerilla Tactics for an Imperfect World (Apress)

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                    • H Haim Yulzari

                      Haim Yulzari wrote: ;P;P;P What's happened to the smilies? :omg::omg::omg:

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                      Roger Wright
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                      I believe that particular smiley requires a leading space to be properly rendered. ;P "Knock, knock." "Who's there?" "Recursion." "Recursion who?" "Knock, knock..."

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                      • N Nish Nishant

                        Christopher Duncan wrote: Oh, my. I can see what happens next. Now where did I put that asbestos suit? Actually he's sorta right. Even if only 20% of MS coders are bad compared to 80% of Java coders, there are still more bad MS coders than Java coders because the number of MS coders far far exceeds the number of Java coders [assuming people who use VB can be classified as coders] Nish


                        Author of the romantic comedy Summer Love and Some more Cricket [New Win] Review by Shog9 Click here for review[NW]

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                        Nishant S wrote: Even if only 20% of MS coders are bad compared to 80% of Java coders, there are still more bad MS coders than Java coders because the number of MS coders far far exceeds the number of Java coders [assuming people who use VB can be classified as coders] The funny thing is that these people who think they are "gods" because they use C or C++ is a joke. :laugh: In reality, there is a group of very skilled, knowledgeable, professional and *FORMALLY EDUCATED* developers using every programming language. :) I do not think a guy who learned C or C++ on his own has any right to look down on a guy who has a BS and MS in Computer Science who develops in VB. :rolleyes: This is twisted. One guy spent time to master A SINGLE language, while the other has a much wider knowledge base of languages, compliers, file processing and databases which makes him a complete developer not just a C hack. Rich

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