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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (3 children)

But what about that one guy who writes absolutely brilliant VB?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago

Ahem:

OPTION BASE 0

Bam, Qbasic AND Visual Basic has 0 based arrays.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

Depends on the version of VB. It seems VB .NET uses zero-based indexed arrays.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Who cares? VB is dead and long forgotten.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Oh, if only that were true.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (3 children)

What? People still use VB? dear god...

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

Languages don't die. They have long tails.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

They definitely do, especially legacy stuff that's still kicking. Sweet, sweet tech debt that you hope won't be a real problem until you've moved to a different company.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

Fucking finances and their macro-enabled excel spreadsheets!