I'm 20 and just finishing up my 2nd year of uni out of 5... i decided it would be best to take it easy so i could concentrate on what was important, windows programming :) James (the other James Johnson) There are two secrets to success. 1) Never tell anyone everything you know.

Soft-drink wise, the only thing I drank last year was Mt. Dew. This year its root beer (A&W or Mug), Dr. Pepper, and Mt. Dew. I'm not a big fan of water though, so I substitute milk :-D James There are two secrets to success. 1) Never tell anyone everything you know.

Why would a VB programmer hate C++? Hell, after working with VB for 2 years I took up C followed by C++! Don't get me wrong, I love C++, but there have only been a few instances where C++ has been the best choice for me to use in a program (I've done database work for several companies in Michigan) and even then I chose C++ & MFC because VB doesn't let me initialize arrays when I declare them, thus writing my lookup table would have been even more tedious (ie PercentBack(0, 0) = .012 : PercentBack(0, 1) = .02 : etc) Many times I've seen comments from some people here that say something along the lines of "If VB is so good, why do all of the VB programs you see on the web suck?". Here's a quick answer that it seems no one has thought of, because the main use [I have seen] for VB is as a database solution for private company use. I very much doubt that the programs I've written for my clients would be of any use to anyone else (especially since they were written specifically for my clients). Hmmm, now I think the next point someone is going to use to poke at VB Programmers is, "Your clients have obviously been too poor to afford a real programmer" (ie C++). Incorrect! One of the programs that was written at the company I worked, was written for the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia [It's just a shame I was working on another project at the time]. I've had one point that's been on my chest since the vote a while ago about whether a VB section or sister site would be welcome. Several of the comments posted were along the lines of that if that a VB section/site was added it would take away from the quality of the articles currently present on the codeproject site. I cannot think of any single reason for this to even be true. Think about it, why would the quality of the articles degrade? The truth is, there isn't any reason for that to happen. After all the the VB section/site would have been just that, a separate section/site, the quality of the articles for the rest of the site would be the same. In fact, I think the quality might actually have gotten better! After all, opening a VB section/site would attract more people to the site, more people generally means more people with some degree of intellect (such that they could write great articles). Come to think of it, while having a VB 6 section/site has been shut down (which I respect that), what about VB.NET? :rolleyes: After all, VB.NET does add some features that have made people choose C++ over VB6- such as threading, inheritance