Bwahahah!

[kleptos]

I could have sworn even Borland said they werent gonna join in on the .Net bandwagon. This is great, i still wont buy their products but i am glad to see they are joining the now.

[Cander]

They know a good thing when they see it and making it possible to combine Delphi objects with other .NET languages expands the Delphi market.

[BG]

I'm gonna switch to COBOL.Net

[Cander]

PERFORM VARYING I FROM 1 BY 1 UNTIL I 
IF I = 1 THEN
YUCK
END-IF
IF I = 2 Then
COBOL YUCKY
END-IF
END-PERFORM

::shudder::




My god can you even indent in Cobol????

Im sure there will be some coolness factor in saying..

"I program in COBOL .NET! I am the r0xor! Me and maybe 2 other people!"

[BG]

No Doubt

::Has a main frame flashback and passes out::

[Cander]

LOL

[kleptos]

i am still waiting for my QBasic.NET With Compiler

[Cander]

That would be quite.....cool! Wont happen though as you can write real console apps now with VB .NET anyway.

[ender_pete]

.net = fun

i dont think i have had so much fun since i went from writing ADA programs to writting VB 5 programs.
.net makes programming fun, now with all the OOP in VB i can really do some destruction of code.

[Cander]

I have to agree. It really is more enjoyable programming again. VB6 was starting to get dull..

dont know if it was hype or what..but I really do enjoy programming again..especially web apps. It has made my life so much easier in many cases already.

[ender_pete]

for me it just takes away all the annoying parts of getting everything to work together fine. you dont have to sit there and be frustrated cause something wont work with it.

.net gives you more time to play wioth your code and do neat things..

like everytime i declare a varialbe and set it in the same line i get happy.

dim strFun  as String = "This is fun"

that just makes me happy
or even better

Private Overloads Function SendMessage(ByVal strMessage As String) As Integer
      MsgBox(strMessage)
      Return 1
   End Function

Private Overloads Function SendMessage(ByVal strMessage As String, ByVal intCount As Int32) As Integer
      Dim intSpot As Int32 = 1
      Do
         MsgBox(strMessage & " " & intCount.ToString)
         intSpot += 1
      Loop Until intSpot = intCount

      Return intSpot

   End Function

overloading makes me happy

the simple things that amuse programmers

[Cander]

Overrides is awesome too. Subclassing is just too easy now.

[ender_pete]

yeah overrides make me happy also

there are so many features of .net that are cool.
like all the built in encryption stuff. they have the reijndael algorithm built into the .net framework.

i just keep finding more cool stuff everyday.