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Post by Pojo on Jan 24, 2006 23:02:39 GMT
Were are the VB boards? I'm sure they were opened again...  I have recently been doing VB and I thought I'd see what everyone else was making. |
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Post by Admin on Jan 24, 2006 23:04:55 GMT
They were closed due to inactivity, VB is more of a dying language nowadays.
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Post by Pojo on Jan 25, 2006 15:34:26 GMT
Ah well.
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Post by Xephra on Jan 25, 2006 21:29:19 GMT
VB is one of the most popular web application languages now-a-days. I read an article about how VB was making Java look bad. =P
Anyway, the coding boards aren't very active really so it's not a great idea, just post in CG.
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Post by Pojo on Jan 25, 2006 21:47:32 GMT
Coders Galore scares me. =D
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Post by Xephra on Jan 25, 2006 21:58:37 GMT
Coders Galore scares me. =D No one there bites, except for dmsuperman =O And I can help with VB if you post there, plus shady and bobby. |
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Post by Mucleus on Jan 27, 2006 20:15:58 GMT
Yeah, wherever a VB Board is created, it inevitably dies. I consider myself more than confident (*brags*) with VB, but from experience, boards on ProBoards forums like this don't survive  Which is annoying, but bleh, fact of life  And Xephra: Wow, I didn't know... *investigates* |
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Post by Eric on Jan 27, 2006 20:51:04 GMT
VB is one of the most popular web application languages now-a-days. I read an article about how VB was making Java look bad. =P Anyway, the coding boards aren't very active really so it's not a great idea, just post in CG. From what I've heard about VB is that it is way to easy of a language that can easily be mastered. Basically its a cheap way of doing things in other languages. The main use its credited for are short and easy projects, but nothing of a decently sizable. |
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Post by bhensley on Jan 28, 2006 2:26:44 GMT
VB is one of the most popular web application languages now-a-days. I read an article about how VB was making Java look bad. =P Anyway, the coding boards aren't very active really so it's not a great idea, just post in CG. From what I've heard about VB is that it is way to easy of a language that can easily be mastered. Basically its a cheap way of doing things in other languages. The main use its credited for are short and easy projects, but nothing of a decently sizable. VB is a best known as a RAD language. RAD- Rapid Application Development |
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Post by Xephra on Jan 28, 2006 6:37:42 GMT
VB is one of the most popular web application languages now-a-days. I read an article about how VB was making Java look bad. =P Anyway, the coding boards aren't very active really so it's not a great idea, just post in CG. From what I've heard about VB is that it is way to easy of a language that can easily be mastered. Basically its a cheap way of doing things in other languages. The main use its credited for are short and easy projects, but nothing of a decently sizable. I learned it really quickly but I don't know everything, I've made a slot machine and some other things like a palindrome checker, etc. Nothing huge but I didn't even need a book or any tutorials. =P |
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Post by Mucleus on Jan 28, 2006 16:00:49 GMT
VB is very easy to learn. Especially .Net, where you get auto-tabs, and so on. Pretty much you can just scrawl normal English into it and it will recognise what you want it to do. But. VB should not be discredited for building large applications. It is probably, well, an unwise choice of language, but it's definitely worth doing. Of course, nowadays MS have made all languages really easy to pick up with IntelliSense and all that jazz, but in my opinion, people should learn VB as their first language because: - Lack of weird brackets, braces, etc - Compilable  - Fast to create code - Great starting point for other syntax I learnt VB for 2 years before experimenting with JS, and it's really helped. And here is a fairly useful application which is quite fast and was created by me in VB: LINK |
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Post by Eric on Jan 28, 2006 17:11:34 GMT
VB is very easy to learn. Especially .Net, where you get auto-tabs, and so on. Pretty much you can just scrawl normal English into it and it will recognise what you want it to do. But. VB should not be discredited for building large applications. It is probably, well, an unwise choice of language, but it's definitely worth doing. Of course, nowadays MS have made all languages really easy to pick up with IntelliSense and all that jazz, but in my opinion, people should learn VB as their first language because: - Lack of weird brackets, braces, etc - Compilable - Fast to create code - Great starting point for other syntax I learnt VB for 2 years before experimenting with JS, and it's really helped. And here is a fairly useful application which is quite fast and was created by me in VB: LINKThe reason it isn't often used for large-scale projects is the lack of control. You have tons of things happening in your code that you don't even know what they do. |
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Post by Mucleus on Jan 28, 2006 17:59:54 GMT
I agree that control is limited, but I'm when you say 'things you don't even know what they do', is that a reference to not having e.g. #include as in C languages, or something else?
For me, the slowness factors are a major drawback. Simple algorithms perform hundreds of times faster in C/C++
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Post by Eric on Jan 28, 2006 18:32:36 GMT
I agree that control is limited, but I'm when you say 'things you don't even know what they do', is that a reference to not having e.g. #include as in C languages, or something else? For me, the slowness factors are a major drawback. Simple algorithms perform hundreds of times faster in C/C++ Well the fact that you have many functions without understanding how they work, or truly what they would do in C++/C. |
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Post by Mucleus on Jan 28, 2006 18:42:14 GMT
Ah, I see. I suppose you are right. But you could argue the same thing with any non-machine code/Assembler language, or just learn how they work |
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Post by Xephra on Jan 28, 2006 18:50:33 GMT
The syntax is sickening IMO, and how their for loops etc. are. =X
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Post by Eric on Jan 28, 2006 19:12:34 GMT
Ah, I see. I suppose you are right. But you could argue the same thing with any non-machine code/Assembler language, or just learn how they work Well you have a lot more understanding of it with a language like C, and you are still very close to the core. A language like VB is very high up. |
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I have recently been doing VB and I thought I'd see what everyone else was making.
Which is annoying, but bleh, fact of life 
