I agree with Charlie. There a lot of languages out there and they all have their strentghs and weeknesses. VB's weekness tends to be builkiness, but thats typical of bad programming. One thing to keep in mind when if you choose VB as your project language is to properly define your variables. Too many people in VB forget about the fact that each variable type takes up so much memory and properly selecting these types cuts down on memory consumptiona and improves performance. Try and stay away from the variant datatype unless absolutely necessary. In VB I typically only use it only if im writing an import portion of my porgram so that I can take a wider range of formated files, but otherwise I specifically do specific datatypes. Also over the years I have seen lots of VB programmers open an object and leave it open till the end of the program, but this method (though it may seem faster) can cause issues with underpowered machines, so be careful in your selection of what objects to keep open throughout the life of the application process.
Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning. Rick Cook, The Wizardry Compiled
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Amen Brother!
I agree with Charlie. There a lot of languages out there and they all have their strentghs and weeknesses. VB's weekness tends to be builkiness, but thats typical of bad programming. One thing to keep in mind when if you choose VB as your project language is to properly define your variables. Too many people in VB forget about the fact that each variable type takes up so much memory and properly selecting these types cuts down on memory consumptiona and improves performance. Try and stay away from the variant datatype unless absolutely necessary. In VB I typically only use it only if im writing an import portion of my porgram so that I can take a wider range of formated files, but otherwise I specifically do specific datatypes. Also over the years I have seen lots of VB programmers open an object and leave it open till the end of the program, but this method (though it may seem faster) can cause issues with underpowered machines, so be careful in your selection of what objects to keep open throughout the life of the application process.
Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.
Rick Cook, The Wizardry Compiled