VBxxxx (fill in your most hated incarnation) SUCKS

[NealAB]

Does this mean that my VB program will be able to build a string that describes VB procedure and then run it (passing in params somehow)? And that my procedure will be able to find itself and change itself while it is running? Or is that too much to ask.

[TheGreatAndPowerfulOz]

Cruel, but TRUE!

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[Chris Austin]

Al Beback wrote:

you don't feel the pain.

[Note:] I am assuming VB 1 - 6 Until you try to do something silly like gasp interact with the operating system or use threads.

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[Anton Afanasyev]

Douglas Troy wrote:

It will dynamically suck, or suck dynamically?

How about both?:laugh:

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[A A 0]

Jim Crafton wrote:

I don't understand this whole "dynamic VB" thing.

Much of the information you will find released in the last couple of days surrounding the “DLR” seems to be marketing speak.

Jim Crafton wrote:

Isn't VB dynamic already? Doesn't it perform method coupling at runtime, not "compile" time?

VB .NET has elements of a dynamically typed language, though unlike previous versions you have to be more explicit about it.

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[Anton Afanasyev]

AFAIK that was possible back in VB6. In the dotNet-ian world (at least 1.1 and 2.0 for sure) you could use the built in tools to compile code (from memory or file(s)) to either file or memory, load it through use of reflection, and execute it. mm, what _IS_ DLR..?

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[Anton Afanasyev]

Thanks, now I'll have nightmares for a few [days|weeks]

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[Anton Afanasyev]

Chris Austin wrote:

interact with the operating system or use threads.

VB6 (maybe 1-5 too, never used those) wasn't _completely_ impossible to interact with the OS/use threads. Sure, you'd have to spend all you work AND free time to get it working, but it sure was possible. And sure, you'd have more code that actually made sure things produce the correct result than code that actually does what the program is supposed to do, but at the end of the day it worked anyway, albeit sluggishly...and that it would be the end of the _next_ day.

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[Chris Austin]

Anton Afanasyev wrote:

albeit sluggishly...and that it would be the end of the _next_ day.

:laugh: You made my point for me, much better than I could. It shouldn't require so much extra effort.

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[El Corazon]

Chris Austin wrote:

interact with the operating system

this is difficult... don't do it....

Chris Austin wrote:

use threads.

this is difficult don't do it.... other things difficult and discouraged: loops, recursion, creativity, thought.... so don't do it! :rolleyes:

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[Chris Austin]

El Corazon wrote:

so don't do it!

But I already have!? Oh no, what do I do now? Will I get in trouble for it? :)

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[El Corazon]

Chris Austin wrote:

Will I get in trouble for it?

Yes... you will be caught in a VB.Net, and forced to write VB-X. :omg::omg:

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[S Senthil Kumar]

I think you are mixing up static/dynamic typing and strong/weak typing. VBScript, for example is a weakly typed language, whereas JavaScript and Python are strongly typed languages - only that the type checking happens at runtime instead of (or in addition to) compile time.

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[Shog9 0]

Al Beback wrote:

When you start looking at how easy and quickly business apps can be written with it, you might actually start liking it, a little.

See also: Stockholm Syndrome...

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[realJSOP]

Like almost everyone else here, we have no choice. In each and every dreary case, we're maintaining old code, and there is no funding for conversions. I hate my job.

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[realJSOP]

I prefer the verbosity because it means *I* have control over what's happening and when. I can promise I will never start liking VB.

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[Chris Austin]

Or you can use delegates to inject code dynamically in C#.

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[Chris Austin]

:laugh:

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[Brady Kelly]

You can do that in VB6 with the CallByName[^] function. When I discovered this it was the coolest thing since sliced bread, as I could use controls arrays, with a Tag property on each control indicating which property it was 'bound' to.

[Rajesh R Subramanian]

Nishant Sivakumar wrote:

Cruel!

Not at all!