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  • OriginalGriffO OriginalGriff

    COBOL It was damn dysfunctional when I wrote in it!

    Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...

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    Nagy Vilmos
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    That said, it was fun until they corrupted its beauty with the ugly COMPUTE verb.

    veni bibi saltavi

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    • J Johnny J

      Well, seing that it's going to come up sooner rather than later, I might as well mention it right away: VB.Net! ;)

      Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
      Anonymous
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      The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
      Winston Churchill, 1944
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      I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
      Me, all the time

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      OriginalGriff
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      A Haiku about VB.NET coding:

      No no no no no
      No no no no no no no
      No no no no no

      Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...

      "I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
      "Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt

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      • OriginalGriffO OriginalGriff

        A Haiku about VB.NET coding:

        No no no no no
        No no no no no no no
        No no no no no

        Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...

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        Johnny J
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        #6

        Shouldn't there have been a _GoTo_ somewhere in there? :confused: And an _On Error Resume Next_

        Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
        Anonymous
        -----
        The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
        Winston Churchill, 1944
        -----
        I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
        Me, all the time

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        • M megaadam

          I don't get this fad in "functional programming". Who can recommend a decent dysfunctional language?

          Life is too shor

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          Nish Nishant
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          Visual Basic 4 calling into 32 bit MASM.

          Regards, Nish


          Website: www.voidnish.com Blog: voidnish.wordpress.com

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          • M megaadam

            I don't get this fad in "functional programming". Who can recommend a decent dysfunctional language?

            Life is too shor

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            Sascha Lefevre
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            Obviously JavaScript can't be beat in this discipline. JavaScript-is-a-dysfunctional-programming-language - The Insider News[^]

            If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't. — Lyall Watson

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            • J Johnny J

              Shouldn't there have been a _GoTo_ somewhere in there? :confused: And an _On Error Resume Next_

              Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
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              The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
              Winston Churchill, 1944
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              I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
              Me, all the time

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              OriginalGriff
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              No no no no no
              No no no no no no no
              No no no no no

              Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...

              "I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
              "Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt

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                Visual Basic 4 calling into 32 bit MASM.

                Regards, Nish


                Website: www.voidnish.com Blog: voidnish.wordpress.com

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                Nagy Vilmos
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                \m/

                veni bibi saltavi

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                • J Johnny J

                  Shouldn't there have been a _GoTo_ somewhere in there? :confused: And an _On Error Resume Next_

                  Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
                  Anonymous
                  -----
                  The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
                  Winston Churchill, 1944
                  -----
                  I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
                  Me, all the time

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                  Richard Deeming
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                  On Error Resume Next
                  10 Print "No no no no no"
                  20 Goto 10

                  Happy now? :-D


                  "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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                    Obviously JavaScript can't be beat in this discipline. JavaScript-is-a-dysfunctional-programming-language - The Insider News[^]

                    If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't. — Lyall Watson

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                    Nagy Vilmos
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                    No swearing in the lounge! Feckin Java Feckin Script!

                    veni bibi saltavi

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                    • Richard DeemingR Richard Deeming

                      On Error Resume Next
                      10 Print "No no no no no"
                      20 Goto 10

                      Happy now? :-D


                      "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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                      Johnny J
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                      The line numbering takes me way further back than VB.Net, all the way to Commodore 64 (and as you know, I'm in a nostalgic mood today :laugh:) :thumbsup:

                      Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
                      Anonymous
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                      The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
                      Winston Churchill, 1944
                      -----
                      I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
                      Me, all the time

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                      • J Johnny J

                        The line numbering takes me way further back than VB.Net, all the way to Commodore 64 (and as you know, I'm in a nostalgic mood today :laugh:) :thumbsup:

                        Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
                        Anonymous
                        -----
                        The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
                        Winston Churchill, 1944
                        -----
                        I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
                        Me, all the time

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                        Nagy Vilmos
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                        In VB3 you could use optional line numbers. We had a doofus who would put them in as it 'helped with debugging'. We had him humanely destroyed.

                        veni bibi saltavi

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                          In VB3 you could use optional line numbers. We had a doofus who would put them in as it 'helped with debugging'. We had him humanely destroyed.

                          veni bibi saltavi

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                          Johnny J
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                          You can still do that (use line numbers, that is) - I just checked in my VS 2015. Not only for VB, even for C#! :~ Tools / Options / Text Editor / Basic (or C#) - And there it is: The Line numbers checkbox :laugh:

                          Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
                          Anonymous
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                          The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
                          Winston Churchill, 1944
                          -----
                          I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
                          Me, all the time

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                          • M megaadam

                            I don't get this fad in "functional programming". Who can recommend a decent dysfunctional language?

                            Life is too shor

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                            Super Lloyd
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                            Javascript! A perfectly dysfunctional language! ;P (and also a perfectly cromulent one! ;) )

                            All in one Menu-Ribbon Bar DirectX for WinRT/C# since 2013! Taking over the world since 1371!

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                              In VB3 you could use optional line numbers. We had a doofus who would put them in as it 'helped with debugging'. We had him humanely destroyed.

                              veni bibi saltavi

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                              Richard Deeming
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                              You can still use line numbers in the latest version of VB.NET:

                              10: Dim i As Integer = 1
                              20: Console.WriteLine("Nope")
                              30: If i < 10 Then
                              40: i += 1
                              50: Goto 20
                              60: End If


                              "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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                                The line numbering takes me way further back than VB.Net, all the way to Commodore 64 (and as you know, I'm in a nostalgic mood today :laugh:) :thumbsup:

                                Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
                                Anonymous
                                -----
                                The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
                                Winston Churchill, 1944
                                -----
                                I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
                                Me, all the time

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                                Tim Carmichael
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                                Ah, yes... line numbering... and then you realize you need a chunk of code in the middle and no line numbers are left. That created a need for a program that could renumber your code. Fondly remembered...

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                                  Ah, yes... line numbering... and then you realize you need a chunk of code in the middle and no line numbers are left. That created a need for a program that could renumber your code. Fondly remembered...

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                                  Nagy Vilmos
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                                  IIRC most, if not all, BASIC systems supported a RENUM command.

                                  veni bibi saltavi

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                                  • N Nagy Vilmos

                                    IIRC most, if not all, BASIC systems supported a RENUM command.

                                    veni bibi saltavi

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                                    Tim Carmichael
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                                    Missing in Commodore BASIC and C-64 BASIC which was an even older version of Commodore BASIC. Commodore BASIC had decent garbage handling; C-64.. not so much.

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                                      Shouldn't there have been a _GoTo_ somewhere in there? :confused: And an _On Error Resume Next_

                                      Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
                                      Anonymous
                                      -----
                                      The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
                                      Winston Churchill, 1944
                                      -----
                                      I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
                                      Me, all the time

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                                      Sinisa Hajnal
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                                      That is VB6, not VB.NET. VB.NET is object oriented, VB6 is language of MS office macros

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                                      • S Sinisa Hajnal

                                        That is VB6, not VB.NET. VB.NET is object oriented, VB6 is language of MS office macros

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                                        Richard Deeming
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                                        VBA is the language of Office macros. It's like VB6-lite - all the horrible syntax and design decisions, with some extra restrictions on top. And VB.NET still supports both On Error ... and Goto.


                                        "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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                                        • S Sinisa Hajnal

                                          That is VB6, not VB.NET. VB.NET is object oriented, VB6 is language of MS office macros

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                                          Johnny J
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                                          Sinisa Hajnal wrote:

                                          VB.NET is object oriented

                                          Yes, but you can still use GoTo! ;)

                                          Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
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                                          The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
                                          Winston Churchill, 1944
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                                          I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
                                          Me, all the time

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