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den2k88 wrote: Boy did I suck. My only software wrote as a self-taught programmer did work but was everything a program shouldn't be.
Some would argue this is exactly where VB leads beginners.
I personally probably haven't done enough VB to make that judgement call myself, but it is the comment that keeps coming back - that it teaches bad habits that are then hard to break out of.
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Oh no it wasn't anything inherent to VB, writing 1000 lines undocumented functions can be done (and I saw it multiple times by so-called professionals) in any language.
I worked a lot on VB6 in my first company and honestly I liked it. It lacked some features and had a few quirks but for its role it's really comfortable. It gives a lot less bad habits than its strongest current competitor, which in my opinion is Python.
As a quick GUI to call library functions it's just unbeatable, but take my opinion with a massive grain of salt - if some crazy mofo in MS will ever release a VB7 I'd jump on it in .3 nanoseconds.
GCS/GE d--(d) s-/+ a C+++ U+++ P-- L+@ E-- W+++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
The shortest horror story: On Error Resume Next
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Yup, had that book. Dipped my toes in the Windows development world.
386SX system, Microsoft C on diskettes. Had some Microsoft book on graphics for DOS (memory vague here).
First project was creating a "bird" (2 triangles) flying around the screen bouncing of the 4 edges.
Proud, I was. First comment was something like: "that looks like crap!". Truth often hurts.
Real project was on a fabricated, vehicle mounted "laptop" with mono screen. No flying birds.
>64
Itβs weird being the same age as old people. Live every day like it is your last; one day, it will be.
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386SX -- 32-bit chip (internally) with 16-bit bus access.
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"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Happiness will never come to those who fail to appreciate what they already have. -Anon
And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music. -Frederick Nietzsche
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I thought this was a slang term.
In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Those who solved it will get that.
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"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
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Thanks for the link, always have trouble tying simple knots.
I'm knot good at knots.
A home without books is a body without soul. Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Mike Hankey wrote: I'm knot good at knots.
Tell me about it! If I would have been a surgeon many patients would have died.
Mircea
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I have been told I'm a knot head.
A home without books is a body without soul. Marcus Tullius Cicero
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good one
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Badfinger
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I spent a fair while over the years working at the pointy end of various offshore racing yachts.
Haven't stepped aboard one in 20 years, but I can still tie a bowline without looking.
Tied a couple yesterday actually. VB cord to tie up plants.
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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Finally! A good use for VB!
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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This be me. I can tie a bowline without looking at it. That along with a taught line hitch, Trumpet knot and your standard square knot. There really isn't anything I can't tie up/do with rope. The bowline is about the most versatile though.
To err is human to really elephant it up you need a computer
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