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    • IT-ADMINI
      IT-ADMIN
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      i totally agree with you, but what force me to work with vb.net the fact that the management application we have now in the company was programmed with vb.net so i have to work with this language, otherwise i have to repeat everything from scratch which is not possible at all,

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      • IT-ADMINI
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        if i want to develop and add new feature into the application i have to use vb.net

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        • scottalanmillerS
          scottalanmiller @IT-ADMIN
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          @IT-ADMIN said:

          i totally agree with you, but what force me to work with vb.net the fact that the management application we have now in the company was programmed with vb.net so i have to work with this language, otherwise i have to repeat everything from scratch which is not possible at all,

          See, that is what makes it bad - it's all about supporting legacy apps that were made poorly by people who long ago didn't know how to choose good products. So it is one bad decision followed by another or at least by an inability to update and replace.

          VB.NET is very limiting, locking you to Windows, tying you to legacy thought processes. You "can" use VB.NET to make modern, good MVC based ASP.NET enterprise applications, for example, but realistically no one does this and it would make no sense.

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          • scottalanmillerS
            scottalanmiller @IT-ADMIN
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            @IT-ADMIN said:

            if i want to develop and add new feature into the application i have to use vb.net

            Why? Even if VB.NET was used in the past, how does that stop you from using C# or F#? Each resource can be in its own language.

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              for example if i want to change an action of a specific button, i have to edit vb.net code, this is what i mean

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              • scottalanmillerS
                scottalanmiller @IT-ADMIN
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                @IT-ADMIN said:

                for example if i want to change an action of a specific button, i have to edit vb.net code, this is what i mean

                Of course, but that doesn't mean that there would be any reason to write something new in VB.

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                • IT-ADMINI
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                  i swear i never use vb.net before, all the time i have that idea that vb is used by beginners and those who are not familiar with programming because it is more close to human language, i had previous experience with c++ and java but only small project but c# was my favorite,
                  now the company i work in, we have a programmer who is with me, and he is the one who is in charge of development, i'm in charge of everything IT except programming, now the management decided that i have to handle them both, in addition to my job i have to help the programmer because he was overwhelmed and there are too much work pending so i have to integrate with him to finish the work as soon as possible, i liked the idea and consider it a good opportunity to improve myself especially i have a background in programming
                  the problem now is that programmer is using vb.net all the time, every program in our company is vb.net, and i'm not familiar with vb.net not wanting to learn it lol
                  i do not have a choice i have to learn it in order to help developing the 3 year legacy programs we have already, in the same time i cannot change the programmer's mind

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                  • scottalanmillerS
                    scottalanmiller @IT-ADMIN
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                    @IT-ADMIN said:

                    i do not have a choice i have to learn it in order to help developing the 3 year legacy programs we have already, in the same time i cannot change the programmer's mind

                    "Programmer" might be a generous term 😉

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                    • scottalanmillerS
                      scottalanmiller
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                      If you are going to make your own code, make it in something practical. If the "developer" can't program at the level of the "non-developer" maybe that should be exposed rather than everyone catering to the "developer" that can't learn a modern language to show that he's the least capable person to be doing the work.

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                      • IT-ADMINI
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                        @scottalanmiller said:

                        @IT-ADMIN said:

                        i do not have a choice i have to learn it in order to help developing the 3 year legacy programs we have already, in the same time i cannot change the programmer's mind

                        "Programmer" might be a generous term 😉

                        sorry, i didn't understand ??

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                        • IT-ADMINI
                          IT-ADMIN @IT-ADMIN
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                          @IT-ADMIN

                          ah i see, programmer is not correct, i have to use the developer

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                          • scottalanmillerS
                            scottalanmiller @IT-ADMIN
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                            @IT-ADMIN said:

                            @scottalanmiller said:

                            @IT-ADMIN said:

                            i do not have a choice i have to learn it in order to help developing the 3 year legacy programs we have already, in the same time i cannot change the programmer's mind

                            "Programmer" might be a generous term 😉

                            sorry, i didn't understand ??

                            If he can only work in VB, I think calling him a programmer is likely too kind. Not that working in VB is that bad, it's just not a good choice for intentional development. But the reason that he is working in VB, because he is likely confused and unable to do development at even the level of a decent high school student (my fifteen year old niece who hates computers even knowns C#), makes it seem excessive to refer to him as a programmer. If he is below the competence of an intern in programming (we'd never consider keeping an intern that couldn't get beyond VB, right?!!?) then giving him a title like programmer is misleading.

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                            • IT-ADMINI
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                              wait i forget hhhh,i have to be fair with him, he has developed a PHP web application

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                                How is his code? Does he turn out some surprisingly awesome VB? Or does it seem like he struggles to do the basics?

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                                  scottalanmiller @IT-ADMIN
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                                  @IT-ADMIN said:

                                  wait i forget hhhh,i have to be fair with him, he has developed a PHP web application

                                  That's a little better.

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                                  • scottalanmillerS
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                                    To be fair, NTG did all VB 6 and then VB.NET development in the early years. Our head of development was a long time VB guy and really dedicated to it (but he also had extensive C and C++ experience, had written a CPU in software at 18 and for fun wrote a hypervisor in a week) and refused to stop using VB until we made it company policy that it was banned.

                                    But once we did and he had no choice other than to switch to C# he spent a few days acclimating and was then very happy that we had done it. He coded better, faster and our products were seen as more serious. It was a win all the way around.

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                                      vb.net has very bad reputation then hhhhhh
                                      someone has to be shy if he tell to people : well i'm a vb.net developer, shame

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                                        @scottalanmiller said:

                                        @IT-ADMIN said:

                                        wait i forget hhhh,i have to be fair with him, he has developed a PHP web application

                                        That's a little better.

                                        which is better in web developing : ASP.net or J2EE or PHP??

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                                        • scottalanmillerS
                                          scottalanmiller @IT-ADMIN
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                                          @IT-ADMIN said:

                                          vb.net has very bad reputation then hhhhhh
                                          someone has to be shy if he tell to people : well i'm a vb.net developer, shame

                                          Well no one is forced to only know VB, people who work with VB during the day are always free to learn something else on their own time and should definitely be. No one expects a good developer to only ever know a single language. I've never met a good developer that was defined by a language. They work in many.

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                                            @IT-ADMIN said:

                                            which is better in web developing : ASP.net or J2EE or PHP??

                                            Why would you limit to so few options and pick all ones that are not considered modern or forward looking? While none of those are bad, none would make my short list, either.

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