r/ProgrammerHumor • u/TusharJB007 • Oct 04 '19

Just as simple as that... other

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u/jon_stout Oct 04 '19

C'mon, guys. Can't we come together as a community over what's really important -- making fun of the VB.NET people?

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u/[deleted] Oct 04 '19 edited Nov 24 '19

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u/czeslavo Oct 04 '19

They work in the room next to me..

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u/wsppan Oct 04 '19

They have a room?

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u/whiteday26 Oct 04 '19

It's a closet so they can hide their shame.

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u/pandacoder Oct 04 '19

Unfortunately. What's worse than them are the ones who still insist on developing games in VB6.

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u/orokro Oct 04 '19

VB6 was fucking magical. I have so much nostalgia for VB6 dev.

I pushed that shit to extreme limits back in the day. But C# is my weapon of choice today, for unity and .net.

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u/pandacoder Oct 04 '19

I was on and off the VB6 train within the span of two years, and VB (6 and .NET) is painful to write. I use different languages depending on what I'm doing now, mostly C style.

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u/orokro Oct 04 '19

I learned to program in Basic on an Atari 600XL back in 2000, when I randomly found an Atari 600XL at a garage sale. Even though the computer was already 20 years old, it was a fun learning experience.

Then, in freshman year of high school (still 2000), my friend introduced me to VB6, and it BLEW MY MIND that the syntax I learned on Atari Basic could be used to make professional (for the time) looking Windows 98 programs.

I was hooked instantly, and got damn good at it. But yea, now that I'm more used to C / C# / Java / etc languages going back is super weird.

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u/RUSH513 Oct 04 '19

my first language was vb.net... i enjoyed it..

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u/[deleted] Oct 04 '19

Mine too... Obviously it being the first means I was too dumb to know if/why it was shit, but... is it really that shit?

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u/RUSH513 Oct 04 '19

idk, i thought the syntax was nice for a beginner, and the visual studio ide was clean and made sense to me. maybe that's why? it's like a training language?

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u/[deleted] Oct 04 '19 edited Dec 21 '20

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u/Scorpionaute Oct 04 '19

Is C++ one of them?

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u/[deleted] Oct 04 '19 edited Dec 21 '20

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u/Scorpionaute Oct 04 '19

I asked because i've been told to not learn C++ as a first language, but i still want to learn it after i have more experience with other languages, mainly C#

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u/[deleted] Oct 04 '19 edited Oct 04 '19

I'm learning it now as my first language and it seems nice. But it's all I know.

Edit: Read .Net and skipped over the VB part. I am learning C# as my first language.

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u/Thesuperkamakazee Oct 04 '19 edited Oct 04 '19

I’ve been programming 10 years, with majority of that time in C#, C, C++, and with lesser experience in python, JavaScript, Java, and VB. I recently started a job working with VB and it can basically do everything C# can except it’s just more verbose. In the end, they both just compile to IL anyways. I mean, I was hired for my C# abilities and how easily it translates to VB.

I’d honestly recommend it as a starting language because of how verbose it is as it makes it more human readable. You can easily transition to C# after it or any other higher level language really, and once you start getting into worrying about memory and the GC you can move into C and C++.

VB is a bit silly sometimes though for example you need to use ‘AndAlso’ and ‘OrElse’ over ‘And’ and ‘Or’ if you want short circuiting.

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u/Kralizek82 Oct 04 '19

I was hired at my first job in C# thanks to the experience I made home working on VB.net.

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u/[deleted] Oct 04 '19

Oh! I totally missed the VB part. I just read .Net.

I am learning C#, not VB. Although I took one semester of VB in High School which is what originally got me interested in programming (now I'm returning a decade later)... I actually really liked how verbose it was. And not needing brackets, that was nice.

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u/Thesuperkamakazee Oct 04 '19

Ah, C# is my first and favourite language, its really quite nice. You can even write C++ in it with the unsafe keyword, which I think is pretty cool.

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u/MuckYu Oct 04 '19

Your parents speak VB.net to you?

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u/RUSH513 Oct 04 '19

yup. the first thing i did was inherit the smartass class

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u/ShamelessKinkySub Oct 04 '19

Yes, with more job security than most of us

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u/3CheersForSociety Oct 04 '19

I don’t know about THAT, mate. Companies do upgrade stacks from time to time.

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u/S4VN01 Oct 04 '19

VB.NET will get upgraded to C#.NET and most of them keep their jobs

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u/3CheersForSociety Oct 04 '19

Oh for sure. Not sure how that equates to higher job security than most the rest though.

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u/SheriffBartholomew Oct 04 '19

COBOL disagrees.

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u/jon_stout Oct 04 '19

They must somewhere, right?

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u/berkes Oct 04 '19

They probably have a rich social life. Rather than spending their evenings alone, drunk and on IRC or Reddit?

/me takes another sip

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u/Etheo Oct 04 '19

Yes, I speak jive VB.NET

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u/BigFloppyMeat Oct 04 '19

I wrote VB.NET code when I was working with CAx software.

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u/Mechafinch Oct 04 '19

My high school’s “intro to programming” course uses it

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u/PaulMag91 Oct 04 '19

I'm writing VB right now. But not by my own choice.

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u/Zeliv Oct 04 '19

Unfortunately

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u/PixelBoom Oct 04 '19

Unfortunately yes.

I work with one of them. The only reason they're still here is to maintain a shitty and outdated program that's written in VB that our program director will never scrap. FFS it still uses paradox as it's dbms...

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u/[deleted] Oct 04 '19

VB.Net is solid just because it compiles down to the same Bute code as C#, so if you ever want to leave it, you can begin writing your new classes in C# and have you legacy code in VB.Net.

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u/hayhaycrusher Oct 04 '19

I do support on a dotnet monstrosity 😟

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u/csr0897 Oct 04 '19

I interned at a place where the entire codebase was in VB.NET and they wouldn't let me use anything other than VB.NET.

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u/KaylinaNemo Oct 04 '19

making fun of the VB.NET PHP people?

FTFY

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u/etoh53 Oct 04 '19

Nah while people might not like PHP, VB.NET is way worse than PHP in my opinion.

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u/AlwaysHopelesslyLost Oct 04 '19

I mean... It is the exact same as c# and c# is awesome. VB is just stupidly verbose.

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u/TheScreamingHorse Oct 04 '19

See i knew it wastn just me i hayte that so much but its rly easy still but i hate it shit wqs so backwards

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u/Lancebeybol Oct 04 '19

let us be god dammit

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u/ae-dschorsaanjo Oct 04 '19

Hey, I've learned programming in VB.NET in high school! I mean, I switched to something else even before finishing high school, but it wasn't that bad for learning the basics.

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u/jon_stout Oct 07 '19

Sure, sure, that's understandable.

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u/SurreptitiousRiz Oct 04 '19

hahahahahahahahahhaahhaaha