What's in a name?

re: What's in a name?

Maxim V. Karpov — Tue, 16 Mar 2004 19:13:00 GMT

Robert,
Well thank you for taken your time and clearifying Marketing mess. As far as developers concerned I guess most of us know the that names does not matter but our bosses the one that are making the decisions do not know, so you confuse the HELL out of them! So they think MS is not stable do you get the point?

Maxim

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re: What's in a name?

Ian Ringrose — Wed, 17 Mar 2004 14:24:00 GMT

Naming is VERY important, at one place I worked at doing C++ coding, we were not allowed to update from VS6 to VS7, as the people in power did not want anything to do with .NET. (The C++ code had to also run on UNIX; therefore VS.NET was a big no-no)

YEAH!!! Visual Basic 8.0 it is!

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re: What's in a name?

Louis Parks — Wed, 17 Mar 2004 20:26:00 GMT

Since there is no ActiveX in ADO.NET (to my knowledge) is it fair to say you are building the next version of ADO?

ActiveX Data Objects .NET is one of the funniest IMO names I've seen for a Microsoft product.

re: What's in a name?

LeeB — Thu, 18 Mar 2004 10:03:00 GMT

And didn't ActiveX get re-labelled as COM so that would have given us CDO but wait, that's already collabaration data objects!

May be the IT industry are just running out of 3 letter acronoyms. I reckon there are only 17576 possible combinations (26 * 26 * 26). Using numbers as well takes us up to just over 46000 possibilities but this could cause confusion with version numbers.

I think that leaves the option of extended the alphabet or, as we've seen, start using dots!

Does anyone know if there's actually anything in the name .NET other than the obvious relationship with the Internet?

re: What's in a name?

Richard Tallent — Thu, 18 Mar 2004 10:10:00 GMT

I understand the need to "de-.NET" everything, I'm definitely not keen on this particular change. The term "Visual Basic" has a lot of bad baggage that shouldn't be thrust upon .NET developers and code. More:

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re: What's in a name?

Assmart — Sat, 20 Mar 2004 00:29:00 GMT

What about VB.NET -> VB$ (Visual Ba$ic$)

Okay that was a lot of B$

Visual Studio: Programming without a net

Ken Brubaker — Mon, 22 Mar 2004 15:36:00 GMT

.NET stutter word is getting dropped from Visual Studio and Visual Basic

re: What's in a name?

dotbat — Mon, 21 Jun 2004 20:14:00 GMT

well, i got a sports car and a nice house out of knowing vb... actually more than most C++/unix gurus who are still wanking themselves raw.

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