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Re:RAD Basic – Compatible with Visual Basic 6 projects by shirogane86x on Tuesday May 10, 2022 @10:12AM (#31327354)
Admittedly most of my experience was in VB.NET, with a small caveat. The codebase I worked on (for around 3 years) was initially ported verbatim from an old VB6 + Access app, and it had the bare minimum amount of changes needed to make it work, so I feel like (and wrote the comment with the assumption that) at least the business logic part of said software was more VB6 than it was VB.NET. Barely no classes and 0 inheritance (the one good side), but also really dodgy imperative code with laughably brittle error handling (when it was there at all), wonky syntax (subjective), and an extremely loose approach with typing.

Considering that I spent (and still do spend) most of my afternoons with Haskell and F#, it was a bit of a shock and an experience that I don't remember fondly at all heh

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Re:RAD Basic – Compatible with Visual Basic 6 projects by wvenable on Wednesday May 11, 2022 @01:41PM (#31343312)
Classic VB comes from an entirely different era. It's hard to express how bad programming languages/environments were in general at that time. From that perspective VB is pretty decent. But we're sorta blessed these days that there really aren't any terrible programming languages anymore. Although we're also cursed that an environment like VB for building applications isn't really possible anymore.

One thing I would correct is that VB does not have extremely loose typing. VB is strongly typed with one exception: the variant type that could hold any other type (kinda like "object" in Java/C# but implemented like a union).

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