These people can't do what they want to do in a new language right away, and then blame the language. As do programmers who haven't used more than one or two (usually related) languages. Hobbyist tend to be more, shall we say, single-minded. You might also find a difference of opinion between programmers who program for a living and those who do it as a hobby. It is true that Basic was limited at first, and that compared to, say, C, its speed was not adequate for intensive operations, but VB.net compiles to the same IL as C# and VC++.net, so there is finally no arguement left there. I expect that there will be some relatively inexperienced people jumping in to say that someone using VBA to complete some simple task is not programming, but everyone wrote a "Hello World" program at some time, and a program is a program however little it does. More people program in VB than any other language. This is probably because it was devised as a simple language to be used by the budding programmers and skilled non-programmers. Ive been programming for 25 years and have seen no end of people slagging off this language and saying that the other language is the best ever.īasic of any flavour has had its detractors since the word go. Personally, I'm not surprised by the responses here.
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