[OT] C Programmer Driven Insane by Excel VBA

[Robert Latest]

Hi guys,

in 25 years I've come across quite a few more (Bourne sh) or less (C, Python)
brain-damaged programming languages. Two days ago I started to tackle Visual
Basic (being locked into a Windows-only Excel-mostly environment, job-wise). It
boggles the mind.

I just had to vent this.

robert

 

[bert]

Hi guys,

in 25 years I've come across quite a few more (Bourne sh) or less (C, Python)
brain-damaged programming languages. Two days ago I started to tackle Visual
Basic (being locked into a Windows-only Excel-mostly environment, job-wise). It
boggles the mind.

I just had to vent this.

Clearly this is a highly personal reaction.

I spent over a decade programming in both VB and C.
There was an occasional hiccup by using the wrong
idiom just after changing from one to the other,
but generally I got along just fine. I actually
found VB the easier of the two languages in which
to consistently churn out code which was neat,
readable, well-structured, and verifiably correct.
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