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Don't be a dick. I'd wager that a substantial proportion of the community on HN started with Visual Basic too.
by matthewmacleod 11y ago
Don't be a dick. I'd wager that a substantial proportion of the community on HN started with Visual Basic too.
- skj 11y agoIn 2012? :)
- rskar 11y agoYup, Visual Basic (Classic/For Applications) is the new Cobol. Thanks to the ubiquity of Microsoft Office, and the tremendous utility of Excel and Access within the business community, it will just keep on getting rediscovered by many folks who want to get a lot of stuff done. http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/252253/why-does-microsoft-still-ship-vba-within-office-products-instead-of-integrating http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/252253/why-do...
- toyg 11y agoThat's not the point. The point is that three years after starting with VBA puts you circa 1998, in terms of generic organizational experience related to LOB programming. I went back to the post and sure enough, everything the author states has been hashed and rehashed umpteen times in the last 20 years. Good for him for learning those lessons, sure, but it's mostly irrelevant for the world at large.