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VBA Going Away, Macs Now, PCs Soon

Posted by kdawson on from the cuts-down-on-the-cross-platform-exploits dept.

Nom du Keyboard writes "As Microsoft drops support for older Office file formats, it looks like Visual Basic for Applications is also going soon. Mac Office 2008 has dropped VBA in favor of enhanced support for AppleScript, and Office 2009 is scheduled to lose it in favor of Mac incompatible Visual Studio Tools for Applications (VSTA) or Visual Studio Tools for Office (VSTO). This sounds like the Mother of All Backwards and Cross-Platform Incompatibilities — especially since there appears to be no transition period where both the old and new scripting languages will be simultaneously supported. And as past experience with Visual Studio .NET has shown, upgrade tools are far less than perfect."

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  1. Hello I am a Mac and I am a PC. by LWATCDR · · Score: 5, Funny

    So Mac you thought you where so funny. Well take this! "PC throws a chair label Cross platform compatability right out a Window".
    So what you going to do about Mister I am so much cooler than a PC!.
    Mac pick up the phone.
    "Hello Open Office org?, Yea this is Mac I have a message from Steve for you. How would you like a big pile of cash and about a hundred programers? Really great they will be right over."

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  2. Well, it's a start. by TW+Atwater · · Score: 5, Funny

    Let me know when they dump Windows.

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  3. Re:Microsoft Tools... by geminidomino · · Score: 5, Funny

    I wrote a bunch of VBA many years ago (hey, I was young and needed the money :P), You should have been a hooker. It would have done less damage to your soul and self-respect. :)
  4. Zero-based arrays by wiredlogic · · Score: 3, Funny

    Good. Can we have our zero-based arrays back now?

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  5. Re:Time for Java by jollyreaper · · Score: 4, Funny

    Not a troll. "Saying that Java is nice because it works on all OSes is like saying
    that anal sex is nice because it works on all genders."
    (Alanna)

    Sort of a troll but it's still funny. :)
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  6. Re:Time for Java by Creepy+Crawler · · Score: 4, Funny

    "Saying that Java is nice because it works on all OSes is like saying
    that anal sex is nice because it works on all genders."

    Try species.

    Baaa means YES.

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  7. Re:Cross Platform? by smittyoneeach · · Score: 4, Funny

    Are you suggesting that Redmond use a tool whose original author is a Google employee?
    Have this madman removed.

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