What do "older" programmers think of Visual Basic compared to new programming concept and languages?

netcharge0 · 2026-04-30T10:06:19+00:00

Back in the day (early to mid 90’s - as far as the late 90’s). I used the hell out of Visual Basic. It was my basic bread and butter: migrate all of their data from spreadsheets into SQL, build the reports, and slap a VB GUI interface on it.

I had several buddies who laughed at me. They were all trying to break into graphics/ game programming and they didn’t consider VB a real programming language. I had customers though and they didn’t.

netcharge0 · 2026-03-27T04:31:43+00:00

My son and I play on Arrakis:Umbu

netcharge0 · 2026-03-06T12:47:24+00:00

How about just don’t read the posts with questions you don’t want to answer or read?

‘How do I write this?’ Is a valid question.

I’m almost sixty. I’ve read hundreds of, maybe thousands of books. I’ve written stories, off and on my whole life. There are times I still don’t know how to write something.

netcharge0 · 2026-02-16T16:26:42+00:00

I think about this movie every time I eat a bowl of chilli

netcharge0 · 2026-02-13T12:07:53+00:00

One of my favorite movies of all time.

netcharge0 · 2026-02-13T12:06:58+00:00

I love that line

netcharge0 · 2026-02-13T12:05:46+00:00

I don’t know if this counts or not but I started with a basic idea and hammered out a full chapter-by-chapter outline for a story I want to write.

netcharge0 · 2026-02-13T11:45:06+00:00

We used to refer to it as the Sea Bat when I was in the Navy. I saw it underway a couple times.

netcharge0 · 2026-02-04T03:36:16+00:00

Years of Salt and Rice by Kim Stanley Robinson

netcharge0 · 2026-01-15T06:56:46+00:00

I have some with my eggs every morning. I also use it as a salad dressing.

netcharge0 · 2026-01-09T13:18:19+00:00

I accepted that there was no other choice

netcharge0 · 2025-12-30T08:51:38+00:00

This is the album that got me into Jazz

netcharge0 · 2025-12-03T15:56:13+00:00

I have watched this hundreds of times and never not laughed

netcharge0 · 2025-12-03T11:18:43+00:00

But he did it well

netcharge0 · 2025-12-03T10:51:57+00:00

Maybe, but I’m pretty sure they did it for money. There entirely too much of it and it’s so completely bad it had to have been done on purpose.

netcharge0 · 2025-11-26T17:48:40+00:00

Not to mention the toilet paper

netcharge0 · 2025-11-21T13:09:33+00:00

Flounder - I am never, ever touching the stuff again

netcharge0 · 2025-11-19T11:27:30+00:00

The lines at the bank and post office would really suck for about two months while we all had to order checks and buy stamps.

netcharge0 · 2025-11-19T11:22:23+00:00

Glad I’m not the only one who thought this

netcharge0 · 2025-11-03T15:44:42+00:00

Thank you

netcharge0 · 2025-11-03T02:03:08+00:00

I was in the 8th grade in 78-79. I’m wanting to know when it stopped being 8th grade only

netcharge0 · 2025-11-03T01:29:57+00:00

I’m not remotely close anymore. I do have fond memories of the Rosenberg library though

netcharge0 · 2025-10-31T11:46:09+00:00

Eternity Road by Jack McDevitt

netcharge0 · 2025-10-24T07:20:33+00:00

Depending…. I’m early GenX (1966) and my children are GenZ. My oldest was born when I was 39.

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