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minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink6•2 days agoBut what about that one guy who writes absolutely brilliant VB?
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink11•1 day agoAhem: OPTION BASE 0 Bam, Qbasic AND Visual Basic has 0 based arrays.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish6•2 days agoDepends on the version of VB. It seems VB .NET uses zero-based indexed arrays.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink6•1 day agoFucking finances and their macro-enabled excel spreadsheets!
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink6•2 days agoThey definitely do, especially legacy stuff that’s still kicking. Sweet, sweet tech debt that you hope won’t be a real problem until you’ve moved to a different company.
But what about that one guy who writes absolutely brilliant VB?
Ahem:
OPTION BASE 0
Bam, Qbasic AND Visual Basic has 0 based arrays.
Depends on the version of VB. It seems VB .NET uses zero-based indexed arrays.
Who cares? VB is dead and long forgotten.
Oh, if only that were true.
What? People still use VB? dear god…
Languages don’t die. They have long tails.
Fucking finances and their macro-enabled excel spreadsheets!
They definitely do, especially legacy stuff that’s still kicking. Sweet, sweet tech debt that you hope won’t be a real problem until you’ve moved to a different company.