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  • Mike HankeyM Mike Hankey

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

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      I confess, despite my conversion to C# I first learnt to code in VB and there's nothing you can do about it!

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      Richard Deeming
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      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


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

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

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

          VS2010/Atmel Studio 6.0 ToDo Manager Extension
          Version 3.0 now available. There is no place like 127.0.0.1

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          • Richard DeemingR 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


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

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

            Dave Find Me On: Web|Facebook|Twitter|LinkedIn


            Folding Stats: Team CodeProject

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            • Richard DeemingR 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


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

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              Pete OHanlon
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              Richard Deeming wrote:

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

              Child.

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

              "Mind bleach! Send me mind bleach!" - Nagy Vilmos

              CodeStash - Online Snippet Management | My blog | MoXAML PowerToys | Mole 2010 - debugging made easier

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              • Richard DeemingR 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


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

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

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                • Richard DeemingR 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


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

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                  Jorgen Andersson
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                  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.

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                  • Mike HankeyM Mike Hankey

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

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                    Espen Harlinn
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                    and a :beer:

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                    • D DaveAuld

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

                      Dave Find Me On: Web|Facebook|Twitter|LinkedIn


                      Folding Stats: Team CodeProject

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                      Nagy Vilmos
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                      Who you calling a dinosaur?


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                        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.

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                        Espen Harlinn
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                        You had one at home??

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                        • Richard DeemingR 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


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

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

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                            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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                            derek9999
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                            I owe you a 5! (That's just 5, not 5 factorial)

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                            • P 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.

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

                              "Mind bleach! Send me mind bleach!" - Nagy Vilmos

                              CodeStash - Online Snippet Management | My blog | MoXAML PowerToys | Mole 2010 - debugging made easier

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                              Richard Deeming
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                              Pete O'Hanlon wrote:

                              Child.

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


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

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                                You had one at home??

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                                Jorgen Andersson
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                                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.

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

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

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                                  • C c2423

                                    I confess, despite my conversion to C# I first learnt to code in VB and there's nothing you can do about it!

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

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                                    • Richard DeemingR 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


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

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                                      Kevin Marois
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                                      AMEN!!! I learned on GW-Basic back in 1985. Now THAT was coding.

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                                      • D 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!

                                        Dave Find Me On: Web|Facebook|Twitter|LinkedIn


                                        Folding Stats: Team CodeProject

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                                        Brady Kelly
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                                        VB6 started off my career. My first major project, as a very green freelance contractor was VB6, because although strictly speaking I learnt to code in TurboPascal at uni, I found VB6 great for a beginner to get real world, working apps into the field.

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                                        • J 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.

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                                          Espen Harlinn
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                                          I remember they had a room full of ABC 80's at Fana Gymnas in the early eighties - I belive their primary function was to collect dust. The students had their own computers, and I'm not sure any of the teachers new how to turn them on. At the time I had a part-time job pushing Ataris, Commodore 64s, zx-spectrums, Acorns, etc. so that was one course I didn't sign on for.

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

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