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[–] psvrh@lemmy.ca 7 points 2 months ago (3 children)

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

[–] einlander@lemmy.world 12 points 2 months ago

Ahem:

OPTION BASE 0

Bam, Qbasic AND Visual Basic has 0 based arrays.

[–] dohpaz42@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

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

[–] AsudoxDev@programming.dev 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Who cares? VB is dead and long forgotten.

[–] psvrh@lemmy.ca 19 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] AsudoxDev@programming.dev 4 points 2 months ago (3 children)

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

[–] frezik@midwest.social 7 points 2 months ago

Languages don't die. They have long tails.

[–] 2pt_perversion@lemmy.world 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.

[–] magikmw@lemm.ee 6 points 2 months ago

Fucking finances and their macro-enabled excel spreadsheets!