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A comment on Ask HN: What language has the best developer experience?.

Re:Ask HN: What language has the best developer experience? by panic on Thursday June 23, 2016 @06:08AM (#11959864)
Of the languages I've used, Visual Basic (pre-.NET). I never used Hypercard, but I hear it was pretty good too. Newer languages tend to be too complicated to have great development environments.
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Re:Ask HN: What language has the best developer experience? by wallace_f on Friday June 24, 2016 @11:26AM (#11970472)
I really did not expect to see someone say pre-.NET VB on Hacker News
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Re:Ask HN: What language has the best developer experience? by bbcbasic on Saturday June 25, 2016 @06:43AM (#11975902)
HN never fails to suprise. I found vb6 ok for simple stuff but a recipe for spaghetti on medium to large projects
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Re:Ask HN: What language has the best developer experience? by wallace_f on Saturday June 25, 2016 @01:49PM (#11977208)
I had to use it at one job and it was exactly that, a spaghetti nightmare. I did not like it. I don't want to say it's bad, though, I just prefer to shy away from it and don't see any point in using it again.
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Re:Ask HN: What language has the best developer experience? by bbcbasic on Saturday June 25, 2016 @05:15PM (#11978029)
It certainly had its place on Windows development before .net was released
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