Programming Question of the Week?

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...

Johnny J

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

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Nish Nishant

Visual Basic 4 calling into 32 bit MASM.

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Sascha Lefevre

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Nagy Vilmos

\m/

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OriginalGriff

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...

Richard Deeming

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

Happy now? :-D

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Nagy Vilmos

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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:

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Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
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Me, all the time

Nagy Vilmos

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.

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Johnny J

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:

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Anonymous
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Me, all the time

Super Lloyd

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

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Richard Deeming

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

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Tim Carmichael

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...

Nagy Vilmos

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

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Sinisa Hajnal

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

Tim Carmichael

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.

Richard Deeming

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.

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Johnny J

Sinisa Hajnal wrote:

VB.NET is object oriented

Yes, but you can still use GoTo! ;)

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Marc Clifton

megaadam wrote:

Who can recommend a decent dysfunctional language?

Python Ruby VB PHP Javascript C++ (yes, C++, because from what I've seen, what was once elegant has become a monster in symbol obfuscation hell) Marc

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