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Its interesting how much hatred there is for visual basic these days. I understand, its the bane of my existence right now replacing thousands of things written
by mkhpalm 10y ago
Its interesting how much hatred there is for visual basic these days. I understand, its the bane of my existence right now replacing thousands of things written with it. But I never stop being amazed at how successful it was. People who had no business programming were able to get stuff done with it. Imagine if MS didn't corner itself and ultimately kill the language by implementing only for windows?
- AnimalMuppet 10y ago> People who had no business programming were able to get stuff done with it. True, and that was good. But it became bad when businesses made that "stuff" part of business-critical processes.
- ern 10y agoThis was often an argument I read in my Systems Analysis textbooks back in that era: "Bob from Accounting threw together this app, now we need to replace it with a staged CMMI-compliant development process that does things properly". IRL: it resulted in an expensive and late waterfall project that Bob, and the rest of his department hate. I'm sure that the code quality was atrocious, but in many ways, it is the ultimate Agile goal: Bob is solving his own problems, cutting through red tape, and addressing real business needs. It's a pity that the idea was abandoned, instead of finding ways to reduce the ways Bob could shoot himself in the foot.