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Replace basic with Lua and read your line back. Just because a language is simple doesn't mean it can't have industrial purposes by whatever gauge you measure t
by adra 4y ago
Replace basic with Lua and read your line back. Just because a language is simple doesn't mean it can't have industrial purposes by whatever gauge you measure things. Theres a bunch of things I wouldn't use basic for just the same with C# and "popular-language-here".
Probably the most used programming language is VBA or maybe the Excel macro if you consider that a language.
- marssaxman 4y agoDid that remark come across as a criticism? I did not mean it so; distributing the power of programming as broadly as possible has always been a central value in my career, and that's why I joined the VB team in the first place. I meant that while it made sense for cutting-edge language development to happen elsewhere, I had thought that VB would have been a great place for work on improved human factors. How can we design the interfaces for this complex system so that people who do not yet have (and may never gain) a strong mental model of its architecture will nevertheless be able to improvise their way to success? That's where I thought the value of VB was.
- shawnz 4y ago> while it made sense for cutting-edge language development to happen elsewhere, I had thought that VB would have been a great place for work on improved human factors. Thanks for clarifying, this makes sense to me and it's unfortunate you didn't get to see this through to fruition