[geeks] Oh my god...

Dave McGuire mcguire at neurotica.com
Fri Nov 29 11:07:54 CST 2002


On Friday, November 29, 2002, at 11:52 AM, Joshua D Boyd wrote:
>>>  I expect that most new VB projects will be .NET projects in the
>>> near future, and whether you've seen it or not, there are lots of
>>> corporations doing VB development.
>>
>>   Who?  Where?
>
> Pfizer.  Armstrong World Industries. Fog Creek Software (OK, they 
> aren't
> that big, but their leader, Joel Spolsky, has a fair amount of fame in
> certain less acedemic programming circles).  Ryder.

   Ryder and Pfizer sell PC app software?

>   Microhelp (Their
> uninstaller product was written in VB, but I think the company has gone
> out of business).  These are just off the top of my head.

   Ok, fair enough.

> Lots of companies are looking for VB programmers, which I take to mean
> they do projects in VB, but that doesn't mean they are major projects.

   Ok Josh, VB is taking over the world.  I'll delete all of my C 
compilers.

       -Dave

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