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AFAIK, Visual Basic was targeted at non-professional/beginner programmers, so having wizards and designers is fine there. My main gripe with abundance of today
by anton_gogolev 13y ago
AFAIK, Visual Basic was targeted at non-professional/beginner programmers, so having wizards and designers is fine there.
My main gripe with abundance of today's "visual programming" is that we have memory-managed languages with immense expressive power and ability to write all kinds of DSLs, yet what Microsoft does is it provides crippled XML-backed designers along with half-baked frameworks and class libraries.
- chris_mahan 13y agoAll microsoft products are targeted at purchasing decision-makers.
- Throwadev 13y agoI've used VS for a few years, and have NEVER used any of the "visual programming" stuff.
- ConceptJunkie 13y agoMicrosoft has always had "half-baked frameworks and class libraries". I actually like MFC, but it never really got past the "good for a first cut" phase, IMO. Fortunately, I've never had to deal with .NET, and besides a little MFC, most of my work is on Linux these days.