Oh well.
The last time I looked at VB was VB 3 (I was comparing it with Delphi
1). It sucked badly then, and sounds like not much has changed.
I can't comprehend using a language without inheritance.
I'm *trying* to understand what an organisation might see in VB (versus
Delphi, or PowerBuilder, or Java). I assume it's because it's a MS
product, and has a minimal learning curve (does it?)
Cheers,
Kerry S
Nic Wise wrote:
>
> > Is VB better for an "average" programmer?
>
> Nahm they learn bad habits.
>
> > Does it provide plenty of run-time saftey-nets that stop it from going
> > "bang" if you do something silly, like...
>
> No, it has 2 error reporting 'modes'
>
> "On Error Resume next" - just ignore the error and continue if it
> goes bang
> "On error goto <label>" - jump here if it goes bang.
>
> > - destroying an object twice
> > - accessing an object before you've created it
> > - creating an infinite loop
>
> It'll just loop, and loop, and loop.....
>
> > - attempting to access an invalid array element
> > - attempting to divide by zero
>
> I think, for the other ones, it just dies. No exception handling to
> speak of.
>
> > If you *do* attempt to do something of that nature, and assuming that VB
> > does catch it "gracefully", does it provide you with nice error messages,
> > including information about the faulty unit, and the offending line number?
>
> Nope, not AFAIK. Well, maybe in the IDE, but not at runtime.
>
> > Can we (you) list some good things about VB?
>
> Its BASIC - so lots of people know it, and it aint too hard to learn.
> Its from MS, so there _should_ be lots of inside info for optimizations.
> Dunno if it does tho.
> MSVBVM50.dll (VBRUN) ships with NT and 98 now, tho they revise it all
> the time, so its kinda worthless. Ditto with ODBC.
>
> ummmm.....?
>
> N
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