Traumwind - VB make you productive...

Says Joel:
What I wondered was, what happens if you take top-notch C++ programmers who dream in pointers, and let them code in VB. What I discovered at Fog Creek was that they become super-efficient coding machines.
And I can only agree. I like(d) programming in VB after I had tackled the first obstacles. But still I'd rather leave it behind. It's just too windows centric...

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