Another vote for VB. VB.NET is what I worked with specifically for a bit and it gave me nightmares for weeks. ;) Not sure how that that is related to VB 6 or whatever because I ran away from the project as fast as I could.
On Wednesday 14 February 2007 16:46, Brian Hawkins wrote: > I have to second the motion for VB. I had to do some stuff in VB 6 and > I swear in order to program in it you had to dumb yourself down. I > would do things that logically made sense in other languages but would > not work in VB. It's like the language encourages bad program design > and style. > > Brian > > Corey Edwards wrote: > > On Wed, 2007-02-14 at 16:29 -0700, Steve wrote: > >> Specifically is there any language you have ever had to learn that you > >> felt dumber for having learned/used it. Either because you expected > >> it to handle something outside of it's problem domain and it didn't > >> (or didn't handle it so well). > > > > Visual Basic makes me depressed. Seriously. I don't know what it is > > about it, but the few times I've tried to learn or use Visual Basic I > > have felt ill. I fear what I might do if I had to use it for any length > > of time. > > > > Worst language I spent any significant amount of time with was an > > inhouse language called JITE. I probably burned my docs on it. It was a > > web mark-up language interpreted by Java servlets. Not sure if it was > > started before JSP was introduced or somebody just didn't know. > > Everything was abstracted 10 steps and nothing was straightforward. In > > the end we rewrote every JITE app in JSP and life improved. > > > > Corey > > > > > > > > /* > > PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net > > Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug > > Don't fear the penguin. > > */ /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
