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You are not the first to hate Visual Basic: Verity Stob.

@mogrim

If you want terse try Python:

import re, urllib
print re.sub(‘</p>’, ”, re.sub(‘
|<p>|
|
‘,’\n’, re.sub(‘No’, ‘\nNo’,
urllib.URLopener().open(‘http://www.99-bottles-of-beer.net/lyrics.html&#8217;).read()[3516:16297])))

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campag

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

1111111111111111111111111111111111111111111
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 Tools>Options and unticking Auto Symtax Check might be the prescription for this case

Youse are all rubbish, anyway. TBH, a nine year-old child could do better than you lot.