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Microsoft Says VBA Is Here To Stay

Posted by kdawson on from the thought-we'd-seen-the-back-of-it dept.

Angostura writes "Microsoft's team blog for Microsoft Excel and Excel Services has responded with a denial to the earlier report that Visual Basic for Applications will disappear from Windows Office in 2009. The Slashdot discussion on the report on Tuesday got pretty animated."

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  1. So Microsoft is at least still a *little* evil by sapone · · Score: 5, Funny

    If they had they rid the world of VBA on top of publishing their binary specs in an Open Source compatible way, their reputation bar might have ended up on the "good guy" side :).

  2. Cue the Yack-son 5 by smittyoneeach · · Score: 2, Funny

    V - B - A
    Easy as one, two, thray,
    Do arrays the mangled way,
    Rather Python any day,
    Market penetration means you stay,
    OK, this post is turni--

    --
    Get thee glass eyes, and, like a scurvy politician, seem to see things thou dost not.--King Lear
  3. My thoughts in lyrical form by Philotechnia · · Score: 3, Funny

    Sung to the tune of "Chocolate Rain" by Tay Zonday
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EwTZ2xpQwpA
    (If you don't know, now you know)


    VBA
    So many people writing code in vain
    VBA
    Debugging apps is really quite a pain

    VBA
    Microsoft says it will not support
    VBA
    To C#, functionality we'll port

    VBA
    No rhyme or reason to deploy this mess
    VBA
    A seasoned coder really could care less

    VBA
    Slashdot will flame Microsoft either way
    VBA
    Now I'm confused why it is here to stay