More mining from our deep seam of WTF's
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If only WTFs could be used as an energy source - the VB6 and PHP legacy code out there could fuel us until entropy.
Oh, a sweet quote for sure. Just replace with your topic of choice...
Charlie Gilley You're going to tell me what I want to know, or I'm going to beat you to death in your own house. "Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783 “They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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Oh, a sweet quote for sure. Just replace with your topic of choice...
Charlie Gilley You're going to tell me what I want to know, or I'm going to beat you to death in your own house. "Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783 “They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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Another gem from the VB6 app I'm in the process of replacing. In production code no less.
SQL = "select policyid, policynumber, covdate" ' Rest of SQL omitted MsgBox SQL RS.Open SQL, con, adOpenStaticMy guess is this was a diagnostic message someone neglected to remove. The SQL statement is quite long (involving a few joins). Must be quite intimidating for users.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough." Alan Kay.
How about the extra points for the numpty who did this in server side code? System hung, grrr, over to data centre, into server room, find the box, see message, scream "E****! You Elephant Seamstress's Child!"
Reality is an illusion caused by a lack of alcohol "Nagy, you have won the internets." - Keith Barrow
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How about the extra points for the numpty who did this in server side code? System hung, grrr, over to data centre, into server room, find the box, see message, scream "E****! You Elephant Seamstress's Child!"
Reality is an illusion caused by a lack of alcohol "Nagy, you have won the internets." - Keith Barrow
Luckily, that is not server side. Unluckily it is VB6.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough." Alan Kay.
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Luckily, that is not server side. Unluckily it is VB6.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough." Alan Kay.
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You know what? Just read this, then turned the head around. My colleague behind me has a XP box with a VB6 project open.. (true story)
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Don't leap to assumptions - I also have a VB6 project open, but only because I've been tasked with updating it to C#.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough." Alan Kay.
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Don't leap to assumptions - I also have a VB6 project open, but only because I've been tasked with updating it to C#.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough." Alan Kay.
The problem is: we can't update it. First it's a very large project, seondly the end-user machine does not have and never will have (old box) .NET installed. It has to be that machine due to hardware (scanner, other devices)
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The problem is: we can't update it. First it's a very large project, seondly the end-user machine does not have and never will have (old box) .NET installed. It has to be that machine due to hardware (scanner, other devices)
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We also have some old legacy projects which need maintenance from time to time. However the gain of updating them to .NET would probably never justify the costs involved.
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We also have some old legacy projects which need maintenance from time to time. However the gain of updating them to .NET would probably never justify the costs involved.
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Luckily, that is not server side. Unluckily it is VB6.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough." Alan Kay.
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It was fine for a product of its time, but is flawed compared to modern languages, for a whole variety of reasons. Wikipedia (VB on Wiki[^] mentions some of its shortcomings, but actually its not as bad as its reputation - it largely suffered from being easy to hack in, so a lot of VB6 programs have appalling design and plenty of moments that make your jaw drop. It really is truly awful at string-handling though - appending to a string would generally reallocate the whole thing, copy, then append. I came a across apps that frequently added 10-20 characters to a 10MB string, which would grind to halt due to this. It should absolutely not be used for any new projects, and existing code should be ported to alternatives now though - Microsoft dropped support a while ago, it will now only work (the IDE) on an XP machine (or VM), and there is no guarantee that the runtime will run on new versions of Windows.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough." Alan Kay.
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It was fine for a product of its time, but is flawed compared to modern languages, for a whole variety of reasons. Wikipedia (VB on Wiki[^] mentions some of its shortcomings, but actually its not as bad as its reputation - it largely suffered from being easy to hack in, so a lot of VB6 programs have appalling design and plenty of moments that make your jaw drop. It really is truly awful at string-handling though - appending to a string would generally reallocate the whole thing, copy, then append. I came a across apps that frequently added 10-20 characters to a 10MB string, which would grind to halt due to this. It should absolutely not be used for any new projects, and existing code should be ported to alternatives now though - Microsoft dropped support a while ago, it will now only work (the IDE) on an XP machine (or VM), and there is no guarantee that the runtime will run on new versions of Windows.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough." Alan Kay.
Thanks for clarification. I was in false impression that "VB" would be also referring to VB.NET but now I see VB.NET is just another compiler for .Net framework and is far from same thing as VB. Then there is VBA which I often confuse with too. Although VBA is something I have to use sometimes when some Excel-crazy person begs me do something within excel which seems only possible with VBA, then I get to tackle some hundred-sheet workbook with thousands character long cell functions.