Startup vet with a coding habit
Readers of my prior posts about the "My" Classes planned for VB 2005 know that I am pretty enamored with them: here, here, and here. I think the "My" classes have the potential to become one of the most significant productivity features of VB 2005 and beyond, and could result in a huge reduction in …
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First, I’m honored Paul Vick was willing to read my long-winded essay, and second I’m honored he would blog about it. In this blog post Paul wrote: …Mike also raises the question of strictness. He makes the argument (echoed by Don Box and others) that many programmers would do better with a world that’s more …
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Now that I wrote my VBScript.NET post, I’m finding others have also been addressing the issue. Maybe one more voice helps? An open letter to Microsoft by Danny Boyd Why do hobbyists matter? by Paul Vick Save the Hobbyist Programmer by Kathleen Dollard Actually, I previously read Kathleen’s article and it influenced my essay but when …