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The original VB was a far worse language than VB.net ever was.
by EdiX 14y ago
The original VB was a far worse language than VB.net ever was.
- smacktoward 14y agoA far worse language with enormous hordes of programmers who had bet their careers on it. "Classic" VB was the PHP of the client/server era: ugly, reasonably capable, and everywhere. Imagine the screams you would be hearing across the Internet if the PHP core devs all decided en masse to go work on something else, and PHP was under a closed, proprietary license so nobody could fork it, and you get a sense for what it was like when Microsoft killed VB.