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2018-07-03, 15:53 #1
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No Love for VB - StackOverflow survey 2018
Oh dear, StackOverflow's Developer Survey Results 2018 has the VBs top of the most-dreaded list.
VB6 more dreaded than COBOL
VBA more dreaded than Assembly
What say our local gurus?Lugh.
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2018-07-03, 17:24 #2
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The signature says it all!
May the Forces of good computing be with you!
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2018-07-03, 18:41 #3
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Surely the 'B's there for a reason, Basic implies something more consumer-centric than Dev-based pro tools
. StackOverflow is also more *nix-centric than the general populace, MS products are bound to rank lower there.
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2018-07-04, 05:15 #4
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I never used VB6 or COBOl (though I heard rumours about the latter!)
I've coded in VBA and Assembly (also Plan). VBA won hands down.
Oh sorry, you said gurus...Cartophilia rocks
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2018-07-04, 22:22 #5
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Sigh. Poor COBOL. I've been writing COBOL and Assembler programs (on and off) since 1973. COBOL refuses to die; there are bazillions of lines of COBOL code running systems all over the world and us COBOL dinosaurs are in short supply so it's not a particularly bad place to be (though I'd rather be retired...God knows I'm old enough!)
Our shop runs everything; z/OS on 3 mainframes, countless Windows servers, AIX, and Linux. The systems that make the "news" the most often are Java applications running on WebSphere Application Server (Windows & Linux). I won't read anything into that.
Rob