"Lutger" <lutger.blijdest...@gmail.com> wrote in message news:hilifj$7u...@digitalmars.com... > On 01/13/2010 10:22 PM, Nick Sabalausky wrote: >> "Lutger"<lutger.blijdest...@gmail.com> wrote in message >> news:hil6gr$2hm...@digitalmars.com... >>> >>> All ML derived languages do this much more extensively and they even >>> don't >>> need an auto keyword for it. C# has var and VB.NET has Dim which mean >>> the >>> same thing. The nice thing with those languages is that if you code in >>> Visual Studio, you only have to hover above the variabele and the type >>> pops up. Most IDE's have this btw, including descent, so that takes away >>> the concern of having to remember the flow of types inferred. >> >> Doesn't "Dim" (without an "As" clause) declare a variant rather than a >> compile-time-inferred static type? Or did that change in VB.NET? >> >> > > What MS did was basically just drop Visual Basic, lot's of rusty coders > lost their job because of it.
Well, from what I've seen from various co-workers, anyone who could only do VB wasn't much of a programmer to begin with. > VB.NET is C# dressed up to look like that dying dynamic scripting language > with a similar name. > It is a different language altogether though Oh yea, I knew that, I just didn't realize that "Dim" without "As" has become an "auto"-like thing.
