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  • J Jim Crafton

    The entire Visual Basic syntax.

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    Ian Shlasko
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    Hey, VB has one remaining virtue... Optional/Named parameters... C# doesn't get 'em until .NET 4.0

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    • T Todd Smith

      What programming terms would you consider equivalent to foul language? For example: Legacy Code

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      0x3c0
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      Variant. dynamic. IUnknown.

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        Hey, VB has one remaining virtue... Optional/Named parameters... C# doesn't get 'em until .NET 4.0

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        Pete OHanlon
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        Actually, I'd rather like the with statement as well.

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          Variant. dynamic. IUnknown.

          Between the motion And the act Falls the Shadow

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          Pete OHanlon
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          IUnkown was fine - it was IQueryInterface that introduced all the problems. ;P

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            Actually, I'd rather like the with statement as well.

            "WPF has many lovers. It's a veritable porn star!" - Josh Smith

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            Ian Shlasko
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            Oh right... Good point. Let's steal that for C# too.

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            • M Mustafa Ismail Mustafa

              Throws, as in the Java notation :thumbsdown:

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              Mark_Wallace
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              Mustafa Ismail Mustafa wrote:

              Throws, as in the Anything in Java notation

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              • T Todd Smith

                What programming terms would you consider equivalent to foul language? For example: Legacy Code

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                TommyTomToms
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                "Brain F$%k" is pretty foul [^]

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                  Mustafa Ismail Mustafa wrote:

                  Throws, as in the Anything in Java notation

                  IFYPFY

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                  Mustafa Ismail Mustafa
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                  Quite true.

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                  • T Todd Smith

                    What programming terms would you consider equivalent to foul language? For example: Legacy Code

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                    Dalek Dave
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                    COBOL!

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                    • I Ian Shlasko

                      DBNull.Value

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                      Mustafa Ismail Mustafa
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                      Right?! I'm sick and tired of that silly thing, why by the most nebulous star shine weren't they able to make it equal to DBNull or just plain null?!

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                      • I Ian Shlasko

                        Oh right... Good point. Let's steal that for C# too.

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                        Rob Graham
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                        Next you'll be wanting to drop the semicolon and case sensitivity.

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                        • P Pete OHanlon

                          Actually, I'd rather like the with statement as well.

                          "WPF has many lovers. It's a veritable porn star!" - Josh Smith

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                          PIEBALDconsult
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                          No! The only time I've wanted something like that was when trying to copy values from one instance(?) to another A.X = B.X and with only saves typing one of the names, I'd want to save both with ( A , B ) X = X (or something)

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                            What programming terms would you consider equivalent to foul language? For example: Legacy Code

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                            Henry Minute
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                            APL. RPG. Java.

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                              Next you'll be wanting to drop the semicolon and case sensitivity.

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                              Ian Shlasko
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                              Drop the semi-colon? And be forced _ to resort to VB's _ horrible style of _ line continuations!?!? No thanks. Though the case sensitivity... I wouldn't have to deal with code where people name the private variables the same as the exposed properties, with just case differences... Or better yet, gems like:

                              int num = Num + NUM;

                              Thankfully, I've never actually seen a line that bad, but imagine a program written like that... There's something you can't do in VB.

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                                "Brain F$%k" is pretty foul [^]

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                                Dan Neely
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                                BF doesn't hold a candle to Malbolge[^] for horror. "Malbolge was so difficult to understand when it arrived that it took two years for the first Malbolge program to appear. The program was not even written by a human being: it was generated by a beam search algorithm designed by Andrew Cooke and implemented in Lisp." "it took many years before the first non-terminating one was introduced. A correct 99 Bottles of Beer program, which deals with non-trivial loops and conditions, was not announced for eight years; the first correct one was by Hisashi Iizawa in 2007." (this isn't talking about adding a language feature; this is just figuring out how to do it in the existing malbolge language.)

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                                  What programming terms would you consider equivalent to foul language? For example: Legacy Code

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                                  PIEBALDconsult
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                                  Extension Method.

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                                    No! The only time I've wanted something like that was when trying to copy values from one instance(?) to another A.X = B.X and with only saves typing one of the names, I'd want to save both with ( A , B ) X = X (or something)

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                                    Pete OHanlon
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                                    There are times that I'd like

                                    with (MyClass myClass = new myClass())
                                    {
                                    .Value = 10;
                                    .ComputeValues(22);
                                    with (.Nodes)
                                    {
                                    .InsertItem(10, 20);
                                    }
                                    }

                                    "WPF has many lovers. It's a veritable porn star!" - Josh Smith

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                                      There are times that I'd like

                                      with (MyClass myClass = new myClass())
                                      {
                                      .Value = 10;
                                      .ComputeValues(22);
                                      with (.Nodes)
                                      {
                                      .InsertItem(10, 20);
                                      }
                                      }

                                      "WPF has many lovers. It's a veritable porn star!" - Josh Smith

                                      As Braveheart once said, "You can take our freedom but you'll never take our Hobnobs!" - Martin Hughes.

                                      My blog | My articles | MoXAML PowerToys | Onyx

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                                      Giorgi Dalakishvili
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                                      You can do it with object initializers can't you?

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                                      • T Todd Smith

                                        What programming terms would you consider equivalent to foul language? For example: Legacy Code

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                                        Joe Woodbury
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                                        COM

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                                          BF doesn't hold a candle to Malbolge[^] for horror. "Malbolge was so difficult to understand when it arrived that it took two years for the first Malbolge program to appear. The program was not even written by a human being: it was generated by a beam search algorithm designed by Andrew Cooke and implemented in Lisp." "it took many years before the first non-terminating one was introduced. A correct 99 Bottles of Beer program, which deals with non-trivial loops and conditions, was not announced for eight years; the first correct one was by Hisashi Iizawa in 2007." (this isn't talking about adding a language feature; this is just figuring out how to do it in the existing malbolge language.)

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                                          TommyTomToms
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                                          :omg: Thanks for the info. I rather be flippin burgers at Macdonald than code in that abomination. Thank god for C# :-D

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