I wonder if they had the same outcry about Basic? Technology is rapidly moving forward and if you cannot adapt then you don't belong in the field. I think its insulting to insinuate that certain people are too old to adapt. I just came from a meeting with a guy in his 70's that was as sharp as they come on the latest and greatest.
"Technology is rapidly moving forward and if you cannot adapt then you don't belong in the field."
Tell that to the folks referenced in post #3
Laugh - well my husband 47 ... not exactly 70 .. but he's made the change... he's gone through a bunch of languages.. mostly on his own - having good jobs. You make a great point that if someone can't adapt they don't belong in the field.
I'm not a programmer - but I live with two - my husband and son.. Maybe it's just that they LOVE what they do - but to them they love the challenge of learning something new.
"I just came from a meeting with a guy in his 70's that was as sharp as they come on the latest and greatest."
I do mainframe storage for a large corporation and I'm the youngest on my particular team at 55. The guys I work with actually wrote some of the software that IBM uses. We are constantly installing and upgrading software and really have to stay ahead of the game. It does keep you sharp.
It's not a matter of moving technology. Upgrades are very costly and large applications are not that easy to migrate.
This business is supposed to be customer driven, not vendor-manipulated.
Many of these 3rd party drivers do not support VB.Net. These are not throwaway applications. VB6 was and is a very good development tool and for speed of development is light years ahead of "C" as long as you do not need to roll your applications out to different platforms. In 99% of my programs this is not required. VB.NET no thanks. I'll keep going with VB until I get to a point where I can not do what I want. So far I have never hit that point.