Who here knows about Visual Basic? (50)

1 Name: Mike : 2007-02-03 05:49 ID:QXmqqDrR

I am taking a class in college, and they are teaching Visual Basic. I was wondering if you guys knew about this language, and I would like to know what your thoughts are about Visual Basic.

Thank You

2 Name: #!/usr/bin/anonymous : 2007-02-03 16:11 ID:Heaven

I know Visual Basic. I worked with Visual Basic for about 2 years. My thoughts: Avoid.

3 Name: #!/usr/bin/anonymous : 2007-02-03 17:54 ID:Heaven

There were already three Visual Basic threads in the list. Why, exactly, would you need to start another one?

4 Name: #!/usr/bin/anonymous : 2007-02-05 05:02 ID:Heaven

trollget

5 Name: #!/usr/bin/anonymous : 2007-02-06 09:11 ID:Heaven

this thread is on a roll

6 Name: #!/usr/bin/anonymous : 2007-02-06 20:15 ID:Heaven

I've never heard of Visual Basic.

7 Name: #!/usr/bin/anonymous : 2007-02-08 01:46 ID:Heaven

freebasic or gtfo

8 Name: adawg45601 : 2007-02-14 03:54 ID:JSly+P/1

I know visual basic, and am learning vb.net now. really great language, it combines the essence of C++ and javascript to make a very nice and easy language to follow. the forms are easy to make and easy to assign. that and besides for that fact its easily linkable w/ all windows apps.

i love the language...just post here again if you need help w/ it.

9 Name: #!/usr/bin/anonymous : 2007-02-14 08:03 ID:Heaven

>combines the essence of C++ and javascript

flawless victory. can we get a sticky up in here.

10 Name: Guille : 2007-02-14 15:13 ID:y1rSqfgS

>combines the essence of C++ and javascript

What?!
Erm... no, it does not. Avoid. Highly unstable.

11 Name: #!/usr/bin/anonymous : 2007-02-14 17:40 ID:Heaven

> can we get a sticky up in here.

No, and you never will. It is not the job of the admins to control the flow of conversation.

12 Name: #!/usr/bin/anonymous : 2007-02-14 18:52 ID:Heaven

And it is not the job of the posters to comprehend sarcasm, apparently.

13 Name: adawg45601 : 2007-02-16 19:17 ID:FpwpP1W3

you can make the language do anything you want, if you know how to program it to do so... its microsoft, so why shouldn't they put in direct relations to their software. that's why it's worth learning in the first place

14 Name: dmpk2k!hinhT6kz2E : 2007-02-17 06:04 ID:Heaven

I don't particularly care either way about the syntax and semantics of Visual Basic and its descendant.

I do care about the dependencies of software I write. The fewer, the better. I waste enough hours of my life writing software, so I'd rather not see the result suffer from accelerated bit rot.

15 Name: #!/usr/bin/anonymous : 2007-02-19 19:01 ID:WnjX95Qc

This or that, I make my living with asp.net

It took me fucking 2 hours to make something php style. Only 10 minutes in vb.net.

Boss can't wait 2 hours sometimes.

16 Name: xli_david_ilx@yahoo.com : 2007-02-19 19:31 ID:XqxiHsL8

I know all about Microsoft Visual Studio 6.0 aka VB6, if you'd like any help then simply email me at h4x0r1f1c@gmail.com

For a program example: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=S71B5CEV

17 Name: #!/usr/bin/anonymous : 2007-02-26 01:08 ID:Heaven

>>15
Are you sure it didn't take you FUCKING 100 MINUTES?

18 Name: #!/usr/bin/anonymous : 2007-02-28 07:47 ID:Heaven

>>17
it was over NINE THOUSANNND

19 Name: #!/usr/bin/anonymous : 2007-03-08 22:38 ID:1q+3CMSN

>>17 lol.

20 Name: #!/usr/bin/anonymous : 2007-03-08 22:41 ID:Heaven

>>19 sage next time please

21 Name: #!/usr/bin/anonymous : 2007-03-09 23:35 ID:Heaven

why? is it so there's no ID?

22 Name: #!/usr/bin/anonymous : 2007-03-26 06:55 ID:Heaven

>>1
my opinion of pre-.net vb is not so great. i don't the quirks and inconsistencies of the language and standard apis. i find vb.net to be more syntatically consistent and a suitable language to work with if it was required but i wouldn't choose to use if i got to choose a language.

>>21
so the thread isn't bumped to the top of the page.

23 Name: #!/usr/bin/anonymous : 2007-08-20 00:41 ID:Fnhk646g

ADMIN/MOD please delete post 16. I don't want to have my email on here anymore when I search it over google.

24 Name: #!/usr/bin/anonymous : 2007-08-20 01:16 ID:Heaven

>>23
maybe you should think before you post.

25 Name: #!/usr/bin/anonymous : 2007-08-20 17:35 ID:xwgUtwfy

Lol, great idea.

It is also a widsom for your life. Think before you do something.

26 Name: #!/usr/bin/anonymous : 2007-08-21 05:13 ID:Heaven

Bitches don't know about my Visual Basic.

27 Name: #!/usr/bin/anonymous : 2007-10-25 22:21 ID:lenvmZbE

VB is slow and crappy, but big companies love it, so if you want a job writing crappy software, VB might be for you.

Once I had to use VBA in Excel to process 15000 rows of data. Basically, each row had either a W or an L in it and I had to determine the longest streaks of W and L. Maybe there's a better way to do it (I don't think so), but my solution, which was to loop through the data (once) and check if the data was W or L, keep track of the current streak and update a variable "Max Streak" if a new maximum was obtained, took about 2 minutes to run.

I'm sure C, Perl, Php or almost anything else could have done it in a second or two tops.

28 Name: #!/usr/bin/anonymous : 2007-10-26 10:54 ID:YCxkb2FM

2 minutes lol.

Assume these rows where a string (written on post)

int maxstrike(const char *rows) {
int max, cur;
for(max = cur = 0; *rows != 0; rows++) {

 if(toupper((unsigned char)*rows) == 'W') {
if(cur < 0) {
if(abs(cur) > abs(max)) max = cur;
cur = 0;
}
cur++;
}
else if(toupper((unsigned char)*rows) == 'L') {
if(cur > 0) {
if(abs(cur) > abs(max)) max = cur;
cur = 0;
}
cur--;
}

}

return max;
}

Returns a negative value of L's for L and positive for W
Example, if we have WWWLLLL it will return -4 and for WWL 2.
Ignores anything other than WwLl

29 Name: #!/usr/bin/anonymous : 2007-10-26 14:53 ID:Heaven

vb is the nigger of programming languages. all the big companies claim to love it for equal-opportunity purposes, but nobody really wants to get to involved.

there's a good reason MS is deprecating vb- in favor of vb.net or vba.

30 Name: c:\4-ch\anonymous.exe : 2007-10-26 18:36 ID:iS5hZ36o

Visual Basic = AIDS

31 Name: #!/usr/bin/anonymous : 2007-10-27 19:40 ID:v8cWu5BP

Visual Basic = WIN!
Plus money for gas.

32 Name: parsley : 2007-11-02 12:48 ID:Heaven

Visual Basic = WINDOWS *fixed

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49 Name: #!/usr/bin/anonymous : 2008-01-02 05:32 ID:Heaven

>>1
I know enough to stay away from it.

50 Name: #!/usr/bin/anonymous : 2008-01-02 08:12 ID:Heaven

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