On Mon, Feb 04, 2002 at 02:39:09PM -0000, Robb Bloomfield wrote:
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WRONG!!!!!!! VB is worse than many other languages. VB in it's current state is suited only to supplement Office, and is no more than a macro scripting language. I have used it myself for that purpose although thankfully not for a while, and I think using it as a teaching aid is a very bad idea.
er... what?!?!?! Are you talking about VBA? (Visual Basic for Applications), which is the macro scripter??
If this is a correct statement, why are there so many sodding programs written in it then?
Because people don't know any better and are taught it at schools who should know better.
VB was designed for RAD development, and is great for the purpose.
If the application you're developing is designed to suck so hard it blows then it's spot on. -- Frank *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* Boroughbridge. Tel: 01423 323019 --------- PGP keyID: 0xC0B341A3 *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* http://www.esperance-linux.co.uk/ ASCII: The control code for all beginning programmers and those who would become computer literate. Etymologically, the term has come down as a contraction of the often-repeated phrase "ascii and you shall receive." -- Robb Russon