Re: Small time coding [Was: Re: About Visual Basic [Was: Industry versus academia]]

[Geoffrey Knauth <address@hidden>]

On Friday, Mar 14, 2003, at 18:02 US/Eastern, Daniel Weinreb wrote:
> The fact that VB isn't particularly good for the stuff that you 
> [mvanier] described as "interesting" isn't really relevant
> to most of them, because they're not trying to do stuff like that, and 
> they really don't want to.

Sometimes those VB developers actually achieve liftoff, and as they 
climb out of ground effect, they quickly notice VB's limitations and 
come right back down to Earth.  That would be the perfect time to offer 
them this nifty VB to Scheme/Python/Ruby/Smalltalk translator, to let 
them continue with their ideas instead of starting all over.