[Closed] VB (***ing ranting ***ing **** **** piece of utter total complete **** content)

VB sucks the big one. Even VB.Net is pretty useless.

So why not use something else? C#?

One of the finest in recent days. Spelling all over the place, random capitals, swearing and, the piece de resistance for me, I have no idea what it was about.

Chapeau, sir, a 10/10 rant!

Could be worse... you could be writing VBA for Access. Or maybe LISP*

That's why I teach now. What coding I do is in my time, for my desired projects and in my language of choice 🙂

*[i]I could only write in LISP after a stupendous amount of caffeine, and if I stopped for a break it would take me about 30 minutes just to work out what I had last been implementing.... [/i]

are you upset perchance?

The syntax checking thing gets me every time in Excel. Grrrr.

I am trying to write a simple macro for Excel. It's taken me two days so far, and I'm a programmer of 15 years experience. The only reason I am persisting is sheer bloody minded determination and the fact I've got absolutely nothing else to do.

CFH, you should've heard me in real life. I am genuinely very upset about the shitness of it all.

I srtill can't tell whether he's ranting about Victoria Bitter or not.

Calm down dear.

Cracking rant. Lots of expletives and gratuitous capitalisation.

if i learn VBA for Access, i could get a 10 grand payrise. is it worth it?

CaptainFlashheart - Member
One of the finest in recent days. Spelling all over the place, random capitals, swearing and, the piece de resistance for me, I have no idea what it was about.

My thoughts exactly!

Would like to have seen some random bunches of letters, indicating the ranter was headbutting their keyboard; gmnsgfgkcfgjkxcxcffmv ,fgfgm,f,mn,fgjklff9irtu989, like that. And perhaps a few more spelling errors. And some random capitals in the middle of words.

In all, very good, but loses points for this, and is just a little too well composed. But a fine effort!

8/10. Quality.

I think you lose half a point for having some formatting in the rant. However best one for a while.
😉

Two words - Control Break

VB - it's not too bad, but many oz bars lack a [i]variety[/i] of beers, imo. I found that I missed good old British pubs.

VB - it's not too bad, but many oz bars lack a variety of beers, imo. I found that I missed good old British pubs.

Ba-doom-tish!

I am trying to write a simple macro for Excel. It's taken me two days so far, and I'm a programmer of 15 years experience.

Man, you must reaaally suck! 😈

Want me to give you a hand?

Why not use C++ and COM, then embed it as a DLL?

8)

VB killed programming for me. Multiple choice development.

Bring back pure C..

C?

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I resent that mogrim. C is hardcore. 🙄

VB is indeed a steaming pile of poop!

yeah, Victoria Bitter is pretty carppy.

Also
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😆

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🙂

LOL. True true.

Still, you're right about the OP: 15 years experience and he can't write a for loop 🙄

Probably a Cobol programmer or something.

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Help me please, I'm frightened... 🙁

You scare easy RudeBoy, must be a northern thing - sarf of the river we're made of tougher stuff 😆

aye carumba - not realised what aload of boring shite computer programming is!

That'd be "ay caramba", but then that's another language you can't manage...

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"The geek will inherit the earth"[/center]

GrahamS - Member
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UR HUMR IS SARACING

not realised what aload of boring shite computer programming is!

Not half as boring as programmers and their jokes....

As in "There are 10 types of people, those who understand binary and those who don't"

But for sheer programming obstinacy try this:

[url= http://99-bottles-of-beer.net ]99 bottles of beer [/url]

[b]CaptainAMundane:[/b] UR HUMR IS SARACING

He started it!

mogrim - Member

That'd be "ay caramba", but then that's another language you can't manage...

can manage "w4nker" quite well bud!!

Apparently there are only 10 types of people in the world....etc etc

Ha, w4nker's got an 'a' in it!!! See, can't even manage English, let alone C...

Not only that, but you did just insult what I spent the last 15 years doing...

As per CFH and RB, excellent rant, didn't have a clue what it was on about.

Excellent.

http://99-bottles-of-beer.net/language-java-3.html

Amazing.

😥

You are not the first to hate Visual Basic: [url= http://www.ddj.com/windows/184403996 ]Verity Stob[/url].

@mogrim

If you want terse try Python:

import re, urllib
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|<p>|
|
','\n', re.sub('No', '\nNo',
urllib.URLopener().open('http://www.99-bottles-of-beer.net/lyrics.html').read()[3516:16297])))

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campag

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Yeah VB (6/VBA) is pretty poor if compared to other modern programming languages, but as a quick & dirty way to slap together a simple access/excel application it's OK.

VB.NET is much better though. It's (almost) the equal in terms of functionality of C#. It's a bit verbose for my taste (I prefer C#) but all the language features you need to write elegant code are there.

jesus, I'm a proper geek but talking to each other in binary....? Although coolhandluke has a fair point.

Have you tried klingon? 😉

I say again "He started it!" 🙂

does not in any way matter who started it, you're all being very silly.

And I hope you have a good, long, hard think about what you've done.

It's not funny, you know.

God help us all if they discover there are numbers after 0 and 1.

0xDEADBEEF

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1111111111111111111000111111111111111111111
1111111111111111110000011111111111111111111
1111111111111111100000001111111111111111111
1111111111111111110000011111111111111111111
1111111111111111110000011111111111111111111
1111111111111111110000011111111111111111111
1111111111111111110000011111111111111111111
1111111111111111110000011111111111111111111
1111111111110011110000011110011111111111111
1111111111100000110000011000000111111111111
1111111111100000010000010000000111111111111
1111111111100000000000000000000111111111111
1111111111100000000000000000000111111111111

Is that a cactus?

Very clever!

Dear god. Back in your boxes geeks!

I kind of agree with El Boufador. VB and Excel etc is a great way of making small neat utilities to help manage your work BUT the programming experience is so badly designed! That's why I was angry - not because I couldn't do something but because I should be able to open the thing, read the documents and write the code - but I couldn't. Stupid pathetic piss poor application design was just needlessly obstructing me oh god it's happening again.. argh!

I think [i]Tools>Options[/i] and unticking [i]Auto Symtax Check[/i] might be the prescription for this case

Youse are all rubbish, anyway. TBH, [url= http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7874291.stm ]a nine year-old child could do better[/url] than you lot.