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Not true, I am a young programmer and I learned vb6 as my first language. It ran perfectly well on windows xp.
by Immortalin 12y ago
Not true, I am a young programmer and I learned vb6 as my first language. It ran perfectly well on windows xp.
- alex_hitchins 12y agoOut of interest, why did you choose vb6? I'd have thought you would need to go out your way to learn such an old platform.
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- Immortalin 12y agoMy dad wasn't much of a programmer, he was a businessman. he had an old copy of vb6 that worked perfectly well and that was my first exposure to programming. Because of that, most other languages with their non-existent gui frameworks and messy IDEs seemed inferior in comparison as getting anything useful done on them was a pain. The jit interpretation allowed me to test my code without having to wait for compilation, at the same time, I can also export it as an compiled executable. Compiled vb is much faster than languages such as Python and Ruby that supposedly allow you to code fast. The current generation of .Net languages take ages to compile making test-driven development a huge pain sometimes.
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- rgbrenner 12y agoVB6 (the last release of VB) is 16 years old, and has been unsupported for 6 years. Even if it was your first language, you can't possibly be a typical new programmer.
- gnaritas 12y agoBeing an exception doesn't make what he said not true. What he said is absolutely true for the vast majority of new programmers.