VB Lives, Long Live VB!
Posted on July 27, 2005
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With .Net Visual Basic was supposed to have died the death it so rightly deserves… except that there’s a ton, a boatload, a big boatload of legacy VB code floating around out there in the form of ASP pages that will need to be maintained pretty much forever. VB will be our generation’s COBOL, mark my words.
Which is why this article from Dr Dobbs, written in January 2000, made me laugh. Because it’s still so poignant and applicable, it informs my every day: Thirteen ways to loathe VB.
4. Another thing about arrays. The index of the first element is 0, unless it is set to 1 by a directive.
5. But there are also collections, modern object-oriented versions of arrays. And the first element of these is usually 1, unless it happens to be 0. Sometimes it is 0 and sometimes it is 1, depending on where you found it. Do you feel lucky, punk? Well, do ya?
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12. The four magic constants of the apocalypse: Nothing, Null, Empty, and Error.
But if you were to summarize the entire experience of developing in VB/ASP in one single line, one statement suitable as an epitaph for the language, it would have to be this:
This almost never matters, except quite often.
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