All right, enough of this....

This is not on topic for PICs in any way. Further posts on this thread need
to be marked with [OT] at the end of the subject line.

First warning.

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-----Original Message-----
From: pic microcontroller discussion list
[mailto:PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU]On Behalf Of Paul Anderson
Sent: Wednesday, April 19, 2000 12:34
To: PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU
Subject: Re: Question: C vs Asm


On Wed, 19 Apr 2000, M. Adam Davis wrote:

> Its nice, however, that one using a 'toy language' can command a 50k
salary -
> with no degree.
>
Sure, but that makes no comment as to it's real-world usefulness.  No
serious application is well served by Visual Basic.  VB programmers tend
to treat it like a hammer, and every problem starts to look like a nail.
They can rarely tolerate the concept that some languages are better for
some applications than others.

>
> What, pray tell, are you strongly un-recommending?
> (I like search engines.  Only one page showed up under "Malrekomendegi!")
>
I ran across the esperanto website a while back, and thought the word
sounded funny, so in my .sig it went.


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