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That's why visual basic is great.
I don't need to hire anyone who thinks they are a programmer.
Its a tool that is easy to train people and allows me to pay them next to nothing.
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Colborne_Greg wrote: allows me to pay them next to nothing
If you had written that from the beginning, I'm sure everone agreed. 
GOTOs are a bit like wire coat hangers: they tend to breed in the darkness, such that where there once were few, eventually there are many, and the program's architecture collapses beneath them. (Fran Poretto)
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No, for the love of something NO! It makes writing code easier for those that don't write code. It only exists as some one else pointed out (probably) in reaction to Borland's Delphi (Object Pascal) MS needed to make there Basic compiler have similar features to compete! Bad programmers can write bad code in any language, the language makes it easier (VB) compare to another (C#) but they compile to the same byte code, you can't tell the difference! 
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People that don't already write code are
-cheaper per hour
-easier to train
-get the job done faster
-get the job done without added flare
-almost half the cost overall as other programmers
-they write in full words (no bad habits)
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also have no clue when something breaks...
I have seen VB programmers programming like they are chucking bricks over a wall!
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Lmao indeed indeed
Gladly I am using Unidex and not SQL so the guess work for my programmers is next to nothing.
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You hang on there my friend and protect our beloved language.
I used to be a VB.NET developer back in 2002 then I've seen the light (that would be C#), this is because I played with VB5 and VB6 during high school, because I played with QBasic during my early high school...
C# pays more and is more respected by developers and generally the code written in C# tends to be higher quality as the VB.NET code tends to be written by old school guys with less OOP experience than those of C# (I am saying "tends" not all).
Advice, move to C#
Make it simple, as simple as possible, but not simpler.
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I think the OP needs some credit.. The intestinal fortitude required to even try to hold dialog favoring VB in anyway here is incredible. VB is my first language, partly because I've grown up my whole life under BASIC.. Partly because my first professional programming job was to convert VB6 to VB.NET and nearly every job since has required VB in one way or another. Who am I to question my employer on the politics of language? Who am I do judge my employer based on their chosen language?
I pulled the trigger and learned C# and have projects I still maintain. Its different, but it works and it makes me more marketable to be able to work in both. Right now, VB.NET is the required language and is what pays my bills. When it comes to new projects where language isn't a requirement I find that any classic WinForm or windows service projects stay in VB but I aim to use C# for anything else if possible.
Is C# still "the better language" if my code pattern mimics VB.NET concepts? Of course, regardless of right or wrong, it's still not VB. Is VB.NET any better of a language if my code pattern mimics C# concepts? Doubtful, because it's still VB.. I don't buy into this culture.
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Visual basic 2013 is better then C#
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Let us accept the fact that our whole logic is built around our natural language, that is the HUMAN language. Therefore, the programming language that is closer to the HUMAN language is more suitable for expressing algorithms. In other words, "IF... THEN... ELSE..." is far more clear and closer to the HUMAN language than if... {... }...
Prof. E. J. Yannakoudakis
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Yes
also in C# there are two ways of writing an if statement such as
If something
do this result - only allows one line of code
if something
{ do this result} - allows multiple lies of code
if a coders places two lines of code in the first example the program fails...
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RIP Eric Hill[^]
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Obscurum per obscurius.
Ad astra per alas porci.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur .
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You've been told about editing Wikipedia before...
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He keeps killing people off where will it end?
If first you don't succeed, hide all evidence you ever tried!
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know what ?
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Entropy isn't what it used to.
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Only bad things happen in Broad Daylight. Muggings take place in Broad Daylight. Murders take place in Broad Daylight.
Other things happen in just daylight If you get home after a six hour drive, and it's not night-time then you got home while it was still Daylight.
I tell you what I'm not going out in Broad Daylight again.
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You are here, you are a programmer, what is this Daylight you speak of? 
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It's a type of pizza bread right?
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Pizza made from donuts and bacon
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.'.-.`-'.-.`.
..._: .-. .-. :_...
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: _ _ _`~(_)~`_ _ _ :
: /: ' .-=_ _=-. ` ;\ :
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: `:| |`:-:-.-:-:'| |:' :
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`. `-:_| | |_:-' .'
`-._ ```` _.-'
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That reminds me of this[^] thread.
You'll never get very far if all you do is follow instructions.
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As a loyal and happy Windows Phone user from its early Windows Phone 7 days through to my current Nokia Lumia 920 and 1520, I have been frustrated by the lack of Sky Go support (and BT Sport) on the platform.
Yesterday I invested in a (cheapish) Android phone - the Moto E.
Much to my shock and dismay, I find that Sky Go is not supported on this device. (At least BT Sport is supported!) What is going on? I take it "Android" is an umbrella term for a random set of implementations which are all fundamentally different.
I am far from an expert, but I have knocked out apps which have worked on each version of the Windows Phone OS - there have never been any breaking changes as far as I'm aware, although some appa are of course not backward compatible.
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This is true. Sky have to roll out versions of Sky Go for each flavour of Android. The problem is, just like Linux, there's no 1 version of Android so each manufacturer can tweak it exactly as they'd like. And yes, I wish that Sky (along with other companies) would provide versions of their applications to run on Windows Phones.
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It took them long enough to get Sky Go onto any Android device.
They ignore what anyone wants though, it isn't possible to log out of Sky Go on an Apple device, although I could on my Android phone.
This means that to change who you are logged in as you have to delete the app, and all its settings, then reinstall it.
Not that I'm using someone else's Sky ID to watch Sky through Sky Go since I stopped being a Sky customer you understand.
Oh no, not me.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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If that is a must, you feel comfortable to do it and the device is supported, why not Cyanogenmod or other similar mods? people in maclaw studio (now novafusion) allow you to set kitkat 4.4.3 in a Samsung S3 Mini, who knows if it could run in your device... after that this would be a completely free phone +/- like a Nexus...
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Err... thanks!
I'm not sure what you mean, and a look at Cyanogenmod hasn't helped much. Anyway, my device is not supported by Cyanogenmod!
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