I have never programmed in VB, though I have written machine code.
Nowadays I do my work in Perl with some C and am quite happy.
That said, I suspect you can craft some useful programs in VB, and if it
speeds development time without greatly influencing running time, why not
do it? I'm too
Development time is minor compared with the
remainder of the life cycle. While hacking for
personal use, the joys of assembler are sufficient
for a limited number of users on a single machine
(or at least machine type) but totally
insufficient (read full rewrite) when the spread
of types
At 11:56 AM 6/10/01 -0400, Paul H. Merrill wrote:
of types available is included. IOW the classic
fight between programmers and software engineers
goes on.
Conjugate:
I architect systems
You engineer software
They program
Ever so true -- but now that I work at the system
level rather than the code level I greatly prefer
You to They. Makes my life ever so much better.
PHM
David Honig wrote:
At 11:56 AM 6/10/01 -0400, Paul H. Merrill wrote:
of types available is included. IOW the classic
fight between
And to never write the way poets do, oddballs do, gibbering
idiots do, for that will allegedly diminish the value of your
writing the way the payers want you to write, that is to
The language is extremely powerful. Many do not realise that, so, to follow
anon's analogy, VB-heads keep on droning
Declan wrote:
#http://www.mccullagh.org/image/10/john-young.html
My female bunnies have expressed an intense
sexual interest in meeting this person.
