Agencies vs clients vs tech knowledge

[cswd]

Isn't it amazing that you load your CV with hints that you're a C# guy and you end up having to work with VB.Net and classic ASP (clunk-o-matic languages). I'm not moaning but it's not "ideal".

[Xenophon]

Isn't it amazing that you load your CV with hints that you're a C# guy and you end up having to work with VB.Net and classic ASP (clunk-o-matic languages).

What is the world like.

The world is full of agencies who use rubbish CV-sifting techniques.

[mcquiggd]

Well VB.Net isnt too bad... just coming to the end of a 6th month sojourn with it and frankly it does the job, although I prefer C# as the squiggly bits make me look like Im a real programmer...

[DimPrawn]

VB.NET just looks so childish, is verbose and encourages sloppy thinking.

Best .NET developers come from a C++ or Java background (and have solid OO mindset).

VB.NET devs tend to have come from a VB6 or VBScript background and the lack of OO techniques in their code shows real bad. Cut and paste reuse and lots of modules of functions with many simple type parameters. Messy.

Microsoft, do the decent thing and drop VB.NET and force these types back to plumbing, macdonalds and roadsweeping where they belong......

[mcquiggd]

I disagree.... the language may look verbose but in certain cases its more productive than C# (and C# is my speciality).

To say the best programmers come from a c++ background is a bit suspect - ive seen crappy c++ code and .Net code produced by people who claim to have lived in OO land for decades... common sense, good analytical skills, the ability to understand and develop a solution are not the sole preserve of people who type { or >> a lot.....

[Spacecadet]

its all about the right tool for the job.

VB.NET is adequate enough for many small-medium size jobs. The real problem as mentioned is the lazy coding monkeys... lack of OO i can understand its another layer of complexity which for small jobs you don't always need, what i really really hate is when you get the cut and paste merchants who can't be bothered to functionalise anything

[Jabberwocky]

I always avoid functional programming - I think it comes from my Fortran years and a fear of long arguments - they are just so common. Nowadays I just stick everything in main and cut and paste in repeated code blocks - saves the compiler inlining it all.

[ratewhore]

I had to listen to a pimp spell out H-T-T-P on the phone once, it was obvious they didnt have a fecking clue...

Gotta love em!

[xoggoth]

C was always best as you could shove loads and loads of stuff into one for loop and make it really totally incomprehensible, which of course should be the aim of any decent programmer. Programming really started going downhill once they starting discouraging GOTO and allowing variables longer than six letters although I fight back by calling all my variables arse.

[mcquiggd]

On Error Goto Cleethorpes was one I had seen....