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    Hi, I´m looking for some info with a comparison of the ease of learning of web apps against the ease of learning of desktop apps. I´ve always heard that web applications are easier to learn, but i cannot find a paper with such a comparison. Thanks Gabriel Old C++ programmers never die. They just cast into void

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      Hi, I´m looking for some info with a comparison of the ease of learning of web apps against the ease of learning of desktop apps. I´ve always heard that web applications are easier to learn, but i cannot find a paper with such a comparison. Thanks Gabriel Old C++ programmers never die. They just cast into void

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      Both are hard. Actually, I'd say web apps are harder, because you can, for example, write the ASP.NET code in C#, but you really need to know HTML, and you're almost certainly going to need JavaScript for client side performance. Three "languages". A desktop app, well, is just one language [edit] geez, well, 2, if you include declarative programming. How I managed not to plug that is beyond me. Thanks Nish! [/edit] Marc MyXaml Advanced Unit Testing YAPO

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        Both are hard. Actually, I'd say web apps are harder, because you can, for example, write the ASP.NET code in C#, but you really need to know HTML, and you're almost certainly going to need JavaScript for client side performance. Three "languages". A desktop app, well, is just one language [edit] geez, well, 2, if you include declarative programming. How I managed not to plug that is beyond me. Thanks Nish! [/edit] Marc MyXaml Advanced Unit Testing YAPO

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        Marc Clifton wrote: A desktop app, well, is just one language. Sometimes using certain er markup languages you can write desktop apps without a language per se :rolleyes:

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          Marc Clifton wrote: A desktop app, well, is just one language. Sometimes using certain er markup languages you can write desktop apps without a language per se :rolleyes:

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          Hey Nish, I thought we were leaving the VB guys alone ? Christian I have several lifelong friends that are New Yorkers but I have always gravitated toward the weirdo's. - Richard Stringer

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            Hey Nish, I thought we were leaving the VB guys alone ? Christian I have several lifelong friends that are New Yorkers but I have always gravitated toward the weirdo's. - Richard Stringer

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            Christian Graus wrote: Hey Nish, I thought we were leaving the VB guys alone ? Huh? Is someone calling me a VB guy? Marc MyXaml Advanced Unit Testing YAPO

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              Marc Clifton wrote: A desktop app, well, is just one language. Sometimes using certain er markup languages you can write desktop apps without a language per se :rolleyes:

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              Nishant S wrote: Sometimes using certain er markup languages you can write desktop apps without a language per se Err, yeah! That's right! Something-xaml, right? :-D Marc MyXaml Advanced Unit Testing YAPO

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                Christian Graus wrote: Hey Nish, I thought we were leaving the VB guys alone ? Huh? Is someone calling me a VB guy? Marc MyXaml Advanced Unit Testing YAPO

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                *grin* I knew he wasn't talking about VB, but I felt the comment about writing desktop apps without a language was just too good to resist. Christian I have several lifelong friends that are New Yorkers but I have always gravitated toward the weirdo's. - Richard Stringer

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                  *grin* I knew he wasn't talking about VB, but I felt the comment about writing desktop apps without a language was just too good to resist. Christian I have several lifelong friends that are New Yorkers but I have always gravitated toward the weirdo's. - Richard Stringer

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                  Christian Graus wrote: but I felt the comment about writing desktop apps without a language was just too good to resist. Ah. I think I'm too wiped to have caught that. Good to take those opportunities! :-D Marc MyXaml Advanced Unit Testing YAPO

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                    Nishant S wrote: Sometimes using certain er markup languages you can write desktop apps without a language per se Err, yeah! That's right! Something-xaml, right? :-D Marc MyXaml Advanced Unit Testing YAPO

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                    Marc Clifton wrote: Err, yeah! That's right! Something-xaml, right? :-D

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                      Hey Nish, I thought we were leaving the VB guys alone ? Christian I have several lifelong friends that are New Yorkers but I have always gravitated toward the weirdo's. - Richard Stringer

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                      Christian Graus wrote: Hey Nish, I thought we were leaving the VB guys alone ? :laugh:

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                        Hi, I´m looking for some info with a comparison of the ease of learning of web apps against the ease of learning of desktop apps. I´ve always heard that web applications are easier to learn, but i cannot find a paper with such a comparison. Thanks Gabriel Old C++ programmers never die. They just cast into void

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                        Gabriel Gibaut wrote: the ease of learning of web apps against the ease of learning of desktop apps Do you mean the programmer learning to write the apps or the end user learnig to use them? -- LuisR


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                          Hi, I´m looking for some info with a comparison of the ease of learning of web apps against the ease of learning of desktop apps. I´ve always heard that web applications are easier to learn, but i cannot find a paper with such a comparison. Thanks Gabriel Old C++ programmers never die. They just cast into void

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                          I would say the window apps were easier. Depends on which language you use maybe. C++ has a higher learning curve then C# eg. In web apps you have to know at least 3 extra things: 1. html 2. scripting language like javascript 3. page life-cycle also if you would like to keep object between pages you have to save them or pass them to the next page manually, in windows apps this is not the case. hope this helps. No hurries, no worries.

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                            Nishant S wrote: Sometimes using certain er markup languages you can write desktop apps without a language per se Err, yeah! That's right! Something-xaml, right? :-D Marc MyXaml Advanced Unit Testing YAPO

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                            Marc Clifton wrote: Err, yeah! That's right! Something-xaml, right? IIRC, the name was Xamlon, right? :-D I see dead pixels Yes, even I am blogging now!

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                              Hi, I´m looking for some info with a comparison of the ease of learning of web apps against the ease of learning of desktop apps. I´ve always heard that web applications are easier to learn, but i cannot find a paper with such a comparison. Thanks Gabriel Old C++ programmers never die. They just cast into void

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                              Gabriel Gibaut wrote: I´m looking for some info with a comparison of the ease of learning of web apps against the ease of learning of desktop apps. I´ve always heard that web applications are easier to learn, but i cannot find a paper with such a comparison. "It takes many more years of experience to be an intermediate C++ programmer than it does to be an intermediate PHP programmer." Rohan Pall[^]

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