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Michael P Butler wrote:
As one requires proper programming and the other is just toying around in VBScript
Well I sure am not going to stop you if you want to toy around in VBScript, so long as you leave me alone to write my proper programmes.
Funny though how what I "code" (quotes inserted by the Snooty Real Programmers Association) is used by thousands of users on average and in one case over 15000 unique users (an e-commerce site we did, damn we should have charged more that baby! Client is raking in a lot of money every month through it.) Surely if all I produce is some text files and a bit of VBScript it should be relegated to a couple users in outer mongolia for data capture only? 
Paul Watson
Bluegrass
Cape Town, South Africa
brianwelsch wrote:
I find my day goes by more smoothly if I never question other peoples fantasies. My own disturb me enough.
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I obviously work with the wrong kind of web-developers then as most of the stuff they produce is just a couple of text files hung together with some dodgy VBScript code. (Don't even let me get started on their JavaScript).
I wonder, do web-developers look down on or look up to VB programmers?
Michael
'War is at best barbarism...Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, more vengeance, more desolation. War is hell.' - General William Sherman, 1879
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Michael P Butler wrote:
I wonder, do web-developers look down on or look up to VB programmers?
It seems to me that web developer covers too wide a category these days. I work for an online financial services firm, people are very testy when it comes to their cash. For that reason all the actual processing is done in SQL Server stored procedures. Yes, the front end is displayed using ASP, but that's a rather small part of our time. However, there are plenty of HTML editors out there calling themselves web devs. It's not really worth the trouble worrying about it as far as I'm concerned - but possibly that's because I wasn't burdened with a male ego at birth 
As Paul said, web app's are used by many people, but then probably not as many people as use MS's app's. I think the survey is fair
What prevents people from seeing is the ghost of recollections of the past, in their eyes. - Carl Kyhlberg
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Michael P Butler wrote:
As one requires proper programming and the other is just toying around in VBScript
*Cough cough* ASP.NET *cough* C# *cough* 
Hawaian shirts and shorts work too in Summer.
People assume you're either a complete nut (in which case not a worthy target) or so damn good you don't need to worry about camouflage...
-Anna-Jayne Metcalfe on Paintballing
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I answered > 1000. I have 2 apps which are used by more than 1000 people. One is a Windows GUI app written about 5 years ago for Lucent Technologies and the other is my current baby which is a Web app.
I think you are right in saying that 1000 web users is not the same as 1000 Windows users for most web sites, since most websites are just content delivery mecanisms, not interactive experiences. When the web app is a truly interactive, then the 1000 users is more along the same lines.
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Matt Gullett wrote:
a Windows GUI app written about 5 years ago for Lucent Technologies
Gads, I hope you're not the one responsible for that miserable Residential Gateway Manager program for the RG-1000!! What a sorry excuse for a product - please say it wasn't you!
"Please don't put cigarette butts in the urinal. It makes them soggy and hard to light" - Sign in a Bullhead City, AZ Restroom
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Nope, that wasn't me.
I wrote an app called Doctrans (the Windows version, they have a Solaris version). It is used internally for the document preparation/processing division.
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Mark Sanders wrote:
The application I work on that is used by more than 1000 people is a windows app.
In no way was I saying that only web-apps can get past 1000 users. I am pretty sure that most Microsoft apps have more than 1000 users 
Paul Watson
Bluegrass
Cape Town, South Africa
brianwelsch wrote:
I find my day goes by more smoothly if I never question other peoples fantasies. My own disturb me enough.
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