Fun with VB.Net

I'm just looking for someones brains to pick while I do this work.
So, anyone any good with vb.net?

Nope, I am a hardware & networking guy, not a programmer.

In short, I have nothing to contribute to this thread.

I mean I am pretty good with both C# (which shares a standard library with vb.net) and VB6 (whose syntax is largely identical to vb.net's minus a few C#-isms) and VB.Net is basically the bastard child of those two but why anyone would want to use vb.net outside of a i-am-getting-paid-a-lot-of-money environment is beyond me

also mrtroy is an idiot

thanks for such a useless post troy.
sponge, could you pm me your msn address, or something we could message by. cheers.

edit: and sponge, in response to your criticsm of vb.net, i know absolutely nothing about how it works in jobs and shit, as i've only done programming as a learning course, and what we've been taught about how it is in 'the real world'.
but i quite like how vb.net is, whats so bad about it?

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Originally Posted by ShitFace

thanks for such a useless post troy.
sponge, could you pm me your msn address, or something we could message by. cheers.

edit: and sponge, in response to your criticsm of vb.net, i know absolutely nothing about how it works in jobs and shit, as i've only done programming as a learning course, and what we've been taught about how it is in 'the real world'.
but i quite like how vb.net is, whats so bad about it?

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If you like it, stick with it -- it'll do (more or less) anything any other language on the CLR will do. Most detractors are really anti-VB (prior to VB.NET) which was an absolutely miserable excuse for a language and environment and usually lent itself to uninformed people making horrible programs which caused their users and/or later maintainers great suffering. That said, VB.NET and C# have converged almost totally (the former towards the latter, thank god) so most of anti-VB arguments don't apply to VB.NET.

well i mean, yeah i hear a lot of people don't like it but i don't see why thats all.
my friend who works as a programmer is saying don't bother cos no one really uses it.
its not like i choose what languages we have to learn for my course though so i mean...

Hey shitface, I took a VB.NET class four years ago.

READY
10 PRINT "KT IS A WHORE"
20 GOTO 10
RUN

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Originally Posted by sponge

READY
10 PRINT "KT IS A WHORE"
20 GOTO 10
RUN

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I a prove of this BASIC code.

well done mrtroy you reconised a very old programming language.
/golfclap

I know, I'm that awesome.

sponge I ran your script till i ran out of memory but i haven't forgotten that kt is a whore