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Lot's of VB on The Daily WTF (v.2)

Rob just left a comment asking "what was the driving motive behind my last post".  To be honest, that thought just ran through my head as I was reading the linked post on WTF, so figured I would post it.

I'm not really trying to start a language war or anything, but bad VB code does seem to be pervasive (though I will say most of that bad code is from the VB 6 era, unless is ported code to VB.NET, or people are relying heavily on the Microsoft.VisualBasic namespace).

As unpopular as the question is (or as much as it looks like a slashdot question), I think it's a legitimate one to ask.


 

Posted: Sep 13 2004, 06:09 PM by dbrowning | with 4 comment(s)

Comments

Thomas said:

I'd say that the answer is pretty simple. The easier it is for people to learn a programming language, the more people that will use it who otherwise wouldn't program.
# September 13, 2004 6:17 PM

Jeff Atwood said:

Also, a lot more developers write VB code. Since 90 percent of everything is crap, that means there's a lot more VB crap to choose from.

Bad developers are bad in any language, though.
# September 13, 2004 8:13 PM

Shannon J Hager said:

XAML must be the best language ever, I've never seen a single DailyWTF in XAML!
# September 14, 2004 2:56 AM

Frans Bouma said:

You can't call VBScript or VB5/6 "VB.NET stuff", though I noticed the same thing, but more that's often VBScript or VB5/6, not VB.NET.

(there is also some C# up there though :))
# September 14, 2004 4:10 AM
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