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We can laugh.

One of these days I'm going to think of a really clever signature.

Pete OHanlon

Even with voting, we couldn't do anything about you learning to code in VB. Depending on what you were working on, VB was possibly a fine choice.

*pre-emptive celebratory nipple tassle jiggle* - Sean Ewington

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Mike Hankey

Friends don't let friends code in VB! You don't have any friends? :)

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Espen Harlinn

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Richard Deeming

VB?! You young whipper-snappers, with your "visual" this and your "inter" that! I learnt to code in BASIC. On a Sinclair Spectrum. With line-numbers. And single-letter variables. And no functions.

10 PRINT "Hello World"
20 GOTO 10

That's real programming, that is! ;P

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DaveAuld

On our quiet nightshifts as a tech, I first really started messing about with VB3, then onto VB4. I wrote a well testing application for the shift, as a standard approach for all the techs to use to minimise human error factors when calculating the test data traditionally done by calculators. and then poorly controlled spreadsheets. Then the other shifts adopted it. It saved about 25minutes man time per test, and usually did 1 test per day, so you can see the savings it made. And it generated a standard html output as a report that could then be attached to an email for sending to town. I got a spot bonus which was probably not far off a months wages (after tax) for my efforts. So VB has to be thanked for that!

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Mike Hankey

Love the art...I'll see your 5 and raise you 5.

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DaveAuld

C64 for me! (just waiting for the real dinosaurs to start telling us all about their early days with their punch cards :rolleyes: )

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Pete OHanlon

Richard Deeming wrote:

I learnt to code in BASIC. On a Sinclair Spectrum. With line-numbers. And single-letter variables. And no functions.

Child.

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Espen Harlinn

  WRITE (6,7)
 7 FORMAT(13H RIGHT)
   STOP
   END

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Jorgen Andersson

I mislearned programming on an ABC 80[^]. It had the same processor as a Sinclair, but a MUCH better interpreter.

People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day.

Espen Harlinn

and a :beer:

Espen Harlinn Principal Architect, Software - Goodtech Projects & Services AS Projects promoting programming in "natural language" are intrinsically doomed to fail. Edsger W.Dijkstra

Nagy Vilmos

Who you calling a dinosaur?

Panic, Chaos, Destruction. My work here is done. Drink. Get drunk. Fall over - P O'H OK, I will win to day or my name isn't Ethel Crudacre! - DD Ethel Crudacre I cannot live by bread alone. Bacon and ketchup are needed as well. - Trollslayer Have a bit more patience with newbies. Of course some of them act dumb - they're often *students*, for heaven's sake - Terry Pratchett

Espen Harlinn

You had one at home??

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Andrew Rissing

Bah, whatever. Back in the 1800's, I had to learn how to program a loom[^] using punch cards. 8-D

derek9999

I owe you a 5! (That's just 5, not 5 factorial)

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Richard Deeming

Pete O'Hanlon wrote:

Child.

I'll take that as a compliment! :-D

"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined." - Homer

Jorgen Andersson

Sadly no, but I spent a lot of time at a friends whos father owned one. Still have the printouts from a couple of games. My parents never saw the point in computers, so my first own computer was bought a bit later for my own hard earned money at my summer job. It was a used 6MHz IBM AT with an EGA monitor, 512kB RAM and a 20 MB double height harddrive. That harddrive outperformed most other drives for many years. It also outnoised them. ;P

People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day.

Colin Mullikin

This made me think of "Wanted[^]". That was a weird movie, but I enjoyed it.

The United States invariably does the right thing, after having exhausted every other alternative. -Winston Churchill America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between. -Oscar Wilde Wow, even the French showed a little more spine than that before they got their sh*t pushed in.[^] -Colin Mullikin

Ravi Bhavnani

The only appropriate venue in which to air this sentiment would be VBDevsAnonymous.org. :) /ravi

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