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Is Visual Basic a Good Beginner's Language?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the would-you-write-"hello-world"-in-it dept.

Austin Milbarge asks: "Ever since the .NET framework came along a few years ago, Microsoft had promised VB developers that their language would finally be taken seriously. To be honest, I never understood why some non-VB developers thought of VB as a 'toy' language, but that is for another article. Anyways, Microsoft made good on their promise and transformed VB from an easy to learn language into an object oriented power house, with lots of OOP functionality thrown in. The old VB has been discontinued, and the new VB is no longer a simple language. With all the fancy changes, is VB still the great beginner's language it once was? Would you recommend it to a beginner over C#?"

4 of 1,100 comments (clear)

  1. To be honest by jswalter9 · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    I counsel all newcomers to avoid anything Microsoft specific.

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  2. Re:And in other questions... by maxume · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    The republican national committee would love Hillary as a candidate. For the Democrats. She is the ugly woman version of John Kerry. Bland. Impotent. Pandering.

    Plus, she is bat-shit insane.

    The democrats, if they wish to remain relevant, need to abandon the strategy of trying to out-slither Karl Rove, stop attempting to convince everybody that they stand for whatever, and actually take a stand for something.

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  3. Re:Visual Basic is horrible; use Python by http · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    IMHO any language where whitespace is a delimiter is -not- a good language for a beginner.

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  4. crap by villekesekene · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    VB and C# are both made by Microsoft so I don't see why anyone needs sh*t like that.