[Technical] Does Visual Studio Rot the Mind?

[Con Zymaris]

On Thu, Oct 27, 2005 at 03:51:32PM +1000, Clark, Ian C wrote:
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: tech-bounces at edulists.com.au 
> > [mailto:tech-bounces at edulists.com.au] On Behalf Of Con Zymaris
> > Sent: Thursday, 27 October 2005 1:37 PM
> > To: tech at edulists.com.au
> > Subject: [Technical] Does Visual Studio Rot the Mind?
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> > In case you haven't seen this:
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> >  (FYI, Chuck Petzold is who we all learnt Windows Programming 
> > 101 off, in  the 1980s.)
> 
> Yes, Con, Chuck's philosophy is to begin with a blank page and let
> everyone do their own thing, a bit different from the guy actually in
> charge of .Net and Visual Studio, Anders Heljberg:
> http://www.infoworld.com/article/05/06/10/HNhejlsberg_1.html
> 
> A proponent of radical rather than evolutionary change (not always
> welcome within a company), he's the reason VB doesn't look at all like
> it used to!

All too surprising from the guy who gave us Turbo Pascal and Delphi, no?

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