Post by thread:[OT] VB and the real world (was: Question: C vs As

snip... > Sure, but that makes no comment as to it's real-world usefulness. No > serious application is well served by Visual Basic. VB programmers tend unsnip... I *hate* VB, but that doesn't mean that it has no real world usefulness. In the IS world, VB is the defacto standard for Client-Server database access. I personally worked on two such systems, one for a large telecommunications company in the midwest, and another for a world-wide consulting firm. I hated it, but I have to admit it got the job done. Long live Delphi! Mark

On Wed, 19 Apr 2000, Mark Skeels wrote: > > I personally worked on two such systems, one for a large telecommunications > company in the midwest, and another for a world-wide consulting firm. I > hated it, but I have to admit it got the job done. > As well as a one-wheeled cart pulled by an epileptic camel will get you from point A to point B, but will it do a good job of the task? VB is probably one of the least portable languages I've ever seen, it's big, slow, and encourages bad programming habits. The world would be a much better place if BASIC had never been invented(it's mediocre even at it's designed task - teaching introductory programming). --- Paul Anderson - Self-employed Megalomaniac spam_OUTpaulTakeThisOuTgeeky1.ebtech.net http://zephyr.sellad.on.ca/~paul "We must move forwards, not backwards, upwards not forwards and constantly twirling, twirling to freedom!"

>As well as a one-wheeled cart pulled by an epileptic camel will get you >from point A to point B, but will it do a good job of the task? VB is >probably one of the least portable languages I've ever seen, it's big, >slow, and encourages bad programming habits. The world would be a much >better place if BASIC had never been invented(it's mediocre even at it's >designed task - teaching introductory programming). Cor blimey mate - you will start world war three with this. I have lost track of how many flavours of Basic I have used over the last 25 or so years, and one would have to say that is pretty portable, at least as portable as C. (here one ducks below the trench and puts flame suit on). Currently working on ground support test equipment for a satellite instrument, where the code is written in VB3 running on windows 3.1!!!!!!!!!!

It's the person usinf the program Not The Program At work we have the all the programing tools you could think of. but that does not make Mal our Vb programer when hes using c++ suite the best or most compact coder. but his project's with Vb are High earner's for the firm.... Any Why my computer is bigger than your's *Not knowing What's in The Box*. <big Grin>;-) Art {Original Message removed}

Least Portable? Who are you kidding? It only runs on Windows! You know what's funny? It's Billy the Kid's language of choice. Now that he's back as a "technology" guy I wonder what the next OS will be written in. Probably Basic, since that's all he knows... <G> Andy Paul Anderson <.....paulKILLspam@spam@GEEKY1.EBTECH.NET> on 04/19/2000 10:43:11 PM Please respond to pic microcontroller discussion list <PICLISTKILLspamMITVMA.MIT.EDU> To: .....PICLISTKILLspam.....MITVMA.MIT.EDU cc: (bcc: Andrew Kunz/TDI_NOTES) Subject: Re: [OT] VB and the real world (was: Question: C vs Asm) On Wed, 19 Apr 2000, Mark Skeels wrote: > > I personally worked on two such systems, one for a large telecommunications > company in the midwest, and another for a world-wide consulting firm. I > hated it, but I have to admit it got the job done. > As well as a one-wheeled cart pulled by an epileptic camel will get you from point A to point B, but will it do a good job of the task? VB is probably one of the least portable languages I've ever seen, it's big, slow, and encourages bad programming habits. The world would be a much better place if BASIC had never been invented(it's mediocre even at it's designed task - teaching introductory programming). --- Paul Anderson - Self-employed Megalomaniac EraseMEpaulspam_OUTTakeThisOuTgeeky1.ebtech.net http://zephyr.sellad.on.ca/~paul "We must move forwards, not backwards, upwards not forwards and constantly twirling, twirling to freedom!"