Poll: What are your liked and disliked programming languages?

Re:Poll: What are your liked and disliked programming langua... by efa on Thursday October 10, 2013 @10:35AM (#6527958)

And who can't love VB for getting shit done (at least back in the day). Though I can see if we are just focusing on the language.

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Re:Poll: What are your liked and disliked programming langua... by jarrett on Thursday October 10, 2013 @12:53PM (#6528704)

My biggest problem with VB was inconsistency. There were multiple flavors floating around with subtle incompatibilities, so you couldn't always reuse code without modifications. Also, it did some weird things with types. Like error messages along the lines of "Type mismatch: expected string, but got string."

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Re:Poll: What are your liked and disliked programming langua... by XorNot on Thursday October 10, 2013 @12:49PM (#6528677)

If VB6/VBA weren't coupled to the god awful IDEs and completely unversionable/patchable binary formats of their applications, it would be a pretty decent programming language.

It's persisted - absurdly - in spite of those crippling issues.

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Re:Poll: What are your liked and disliked programming langua... by adelle on Thursday October 10, 2013 @11:34PM (#6531291)

The VB6 IDE was Ok for 1998, but 1998 was a long time ago.

I still use VB6/VBA to get shit done, but only because I have a bunch of code & tools I've already written in or for it. I can see how it would be pretty useless to most people.

Registry-free COM has solved all of the versioning issues for me.

Language-wise, I find it's limitations to be its strength - kind of like ouilipo for programming.

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