How Visual Basic became the most dominant prog. env & its sudden fall from grace

Re:How Visual Basic became the most dominant prog. env & its... by henryluo on Tuesday October 01, 2024 @11:18AM (#41709545)

Do you agree to Linus Torvalds that “Visual Basic did more for programming than Object-Oriented Languages did”?

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Re:How Visual Basic became the most dominant prog. env & its... by zubairq on Saturday October 05, 2024 @12:44PM (#41751113)

Yes, I agree with that

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Re:How Visual Basic became the most dominant prog. env & its... by bigfatkitten on Saturday October 05, 2024 @03:18PM (#41752227)

> Torvalds, as it turns out, was right: it was primarily the tools, ecosystems, integrations, and frameworks that would define the near future, not the design of the languages themselves.

JavaScript, as a case in point. It's a terrible language.

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