Starbucks sightings

[elfs]

There's a guy to my right hacking on a Panasanic ToughBook. Poor fellow; when I said it looked like he was writing in Java, he said, "It's C#. They look the same." I told him I liked C# better than Java, but didn't work in the Microsoft world and had little use for either. "That's okay," he said. "I prefer VB anyway."

Really different worlds.

There's another guy with an iPhone and a hipster PDA. He's reading a Harry Turtledove novel; every ten minutes the iPhone chimes, he takes a card off the stack, reads it, picks up the phone and makes a sales pitch. If he hasn't used up his ten minutes, he goes back to his book.

Comments

[rhonan.livejournal.com]

I can do some fun things with VB. Then again, that's a fitting language for me, as I would never describe myself as a programmer.

[blaisepascal]

VB.NET isn't my preferred language choice, but it's just as capable a language as virtually any .NET language. It's worlds better than VB6 in terms of language design.

I wonder what the next language in the C/C++/Java/C# line will be. Now that Oracle has bought Sun and the Java standardization process is having problems, will someone else step forward with a language which builds on the lessons of C# and Java the way C# built on the lessons of Java and C++? Will the popularity of iPhone development see a rise of Objective-C to be a viable contender?

[phred1973.livejournal.com]

That sounds like a VERY calming and non-soul-destroying form of telephone salesmanship.

As an Army Recruiter, I did not have that kind of freedom for making phone calls.