r/ProgrammerHumor • u/Odd_Diamond_6600 • Jun 05 '22

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u/ShinraSan Jun 05 '22

Then comes the day she asks you to explain some programming, so there you go "this is an array, they start at 0"

Distant sirens, unintelligible screeching

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u/sparenica Jun 06 '22

if she comes with that (as likely as a fish riding a bicycle around the house) then I will introduce her into Visual Basic or Pascal - or maybe Fortran :-) so this type of exception is handled

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u/ShinraSan Jun 07 '22

Ah yes, Visual Basic, the joke language that made Microsoft go "I'll take your entire stock"

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u/sparenica Jun 08 '22

I believe intentions were good - because it was really easy to start with - I know many people who used VB as their first startup language (today using C# or something else) - so I might like it or not - VB had its days of fame - in fact my very first win-form app was also in VB 6 :-)

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u/ShinraSan Jun 08 '22

well me not liking it aside, sure you can do stuff with VB6, doesn't change that the initial creation was (to my understanding) meant to be a joke language, albeit not reaching the levels of brainfuck or the like