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Sat, 11 November 2006 10:37

Dave Anderson
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Silent Kane wrote on Sat, 11 November 2006 08:47

Dave Anderson wrote on Thu, 09 November 2006 20:48

You're right. It has horrible syntax and is an unstable language. However, a lot of people are attracted to it because of its "English like" syntax.

And C++ and such don't have ""English like" syntax"?
Also, Java and VisualBullshit are NOT a good language to start with. About all languages are "easy" to learn, difference is that VB and Java are slow and are rather limited.

Not like Visual Basic does. For example, the simple if-then-else statement.

Visual Basic:

If condition Then
action
Else
action
End If

C#, C++, J#..

if (condition)
{
action
}
else
{
action
}

The difference is that beginner programmers do not like the syntax of having brackets and other interesting characters in their code. A poll was taken on the Microsoft Forums a while back and some 70% or more of the beginner programmers who voted had voted for Visual Basic for that reason.

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Also, Java and VisualBullshit are NOT a good language to start with. About all languages are "easy" to learn, difference is that VB and Java are slow and are rather limited.

Visual Basic is a good language to start with despite it being slow and unstable. A lot of the syntax for things such as creating arrays are more simple in VB. The language being limited has no bearing on whether it is a good language to start with or not. When you first learn a language, you're not going to care whether you have the fine tuned control like you do in C++ or C#, you want to learn the basics and learn the logic.

David Anderson
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		Visual Basics By: BlueThen on Thu, 09 November 2006 14:30
		Re: Visual Basics By: cmatt42 on Thu, 09 November 2006 14:37
		Re: Visual Basics By: Viking on Thu, 09 November 2006 15:10
		Re: Visual Basics By: bandie63 on Thu, 09 November 2006 15:30
		Re: Visual Basics By: Dave Anderson on Thu, 09 November 2006 15:35
		Re: Visual Basics By: bandie63 on Thu, 09 November 2006 18:11
		Re: Visual Basics By: icedog90 on Thu, 09 November 2006 15:30
		Re: Visual Basics By: Sir Kane on Thu, 09 November 2006 19:42
		Re: Visual Basics By: Dave Anderson on Thu, 09 November 2006 19:48
		Re: Visual Basics By: Sir Kane on Sat, 11 November 2006 08:47
		Re: Visual Basics By: Dave Anderson on Sat, 11 November 2006 10:37
		Re: Visual Basics By: icedog90 on Sat, 11 November 2006 14:57
		Re: Visual Basics By: icedog90 on Thu, 09 November 2006 21:53
		Re: Visual Basics By: Dave Anderson on Thu, 09 November 2006 23:11
		Re: Visual Basics By: light on Fri, 10 November 2006 19:29
		Re: Visual Basics By: terminator 101 on Fri, 10 November 2006 23:23
		Re: Visual Basics By: light on Sat, 11 November 2006 12:39
		Re: Visual Basics By: Dave Anderson on Sat, 11 November 2006 01:11
		Re: Visual Basics By: icedog90 on Thu, 09 November 2006 23:25
		Re: Visual Basics By: bandie63 on Fri, 10 November 2006 15:13
		Re: Visual Basics By: Dave Anderson on Fri, 10 November 2006 15:33
		Re: Visual Basics By: icedog90 on Fri, 10 November 2006 19:56
		Re: Visual Basics By: Ma1kel on Sat, 11 November 2006 09:26
		Re: Visual Basics By: fl00d3d on Sat, 11 November 2006 15:06
		Re: Visual Basics By: Dave Anderson on Sat, 11 November 2006 16:24
		Re: Visual Basics By: Sir Kane on Sun, 12 November 2006 03:46
		Re: Visual Basics By: Jonty on Sun, 12 November 2006 05:57
		Re: Visual Basics By: icedog90 on Sat, 11 November 2006 15:16
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