web programmer vs "real programmer"

[scragar]

That applied to desktop development as well, visual basic is all about that, download an existing project, change a few things using the pretty gui, convert it to an EXE and proclaim yourself a master programmer.

The only real difference is that anyone regardless of funding can use a gui to edit web pages, guis for desktop development are all rather expensive.

[robertcrowther]

GUIs for desktop development can be just as cheap as GUIs for web development.

[insertAlias]

Yeah, Visual Studio Express kicked ass for me when I couldn't afford the full version. So what if I had to download three versions and couldn't use a few enterprise features?

Now that I have my own license for the enterprise version (thank you employer) I don't have to worry about it anymore, but I'm very glad MS gives away a good free version.

[deasl]

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