[Info-vax] [OT] Programming languages, was: Re: Long uptime cut short by Hurricane Sandy

[David Froble]

VAXman- @SendSpamHere.ORG wrote:

>> Yes, I know about C++ :-), but I have decided not to go down that path
>> for my own embedded projects. What is been taught by universities as
>> Ada's replacement these days ?
> 
> Visual BASIC
> 

I'm well aware that you intended that to be a joke.  However, while 
there are things I don't like about VB, and some things I REALLY don't 
like about VB, it is fairly easy to use and much can be done with it.

Took me a while to get used to "event driven", and then even more time 
to write programs without events.

Some of the worst things weren't even VB, but weendoze.  The concept, as 
I understand it, of "blocking operations" on weendoze socket 
communications blocking all other socket operations, not just in that 
program, or process/job, but the entire OS.  Gag, gag, gag ...

Getting off topic .. (what's new about that?)