Comments on: Does Visual Basic have a future? http://www.itwriting.com/blog/1540-does-visual-basic-have-a-future.html Tech writing blog Sun, 12 Feb 2012 21:04:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Jonathan Allen http://www.itwriting.com/blog/1540-does-visual-basic-have-a-future.html/comment-page-1#comment-135647 Jonathan Allen Tue, 23 Jun 2009 19:43:25 +0000 http://www.itwriting.com/blog/1540-does-visual-basic-have-a-future.html#comment-135647 I'm not entirely sure that's a bad thing. In C languages you can have a line break just about anywhere. This leads to needless debates about coding standards. And I certainly don't want people to do things like place "End" and "Function" on separate lines. I’m not entirely sure that’s a bad thing.

In C languages you can have a line break just about anywhere. This leads to needless debates about coding standards.

And I certainly don’t want people to do things like place “End” and “Function” on separate lines.

]]> By: tim http://www.itwriting.com/blog/1540-does-visual-basic-have-a-future.html/comment-page-1#comment-135569 tim Tue, 23 Jun 2009 11:12:42 +0000 http://www.itwriting.com/blog/1540-does-visual-basic-have-a-future.html#comment-135569 Thanks Jonathan. The statement continuation feature in VB 10 is partial, see: http://blogs.msdn.com/vbteam/archive/2009/03/27/implicit-line-continuation-in-vb-10-tyler-whitney.aspx I agree though, should be less annoying. Tim Thanks Jonathan.

The statement continuation feature in VB 10 is partial, see:

http://blogs.msdn.com/vbteam/archive/2009/03/27/implicit-line-continuation-in-vb-10-tyler-whitney.aspx

I agree though, should be less annoying.

Tim

]]> By: Jonathan Allen http://www.itwriting.com/blog/1540-does-visual-basic-have-a-future.html/comment-page-1#comment-135554 Jonathan Allen Tue, 23 Jun 2009 06:48:12 +0000 http://www.itwriting.com/blog/1540-does-visual-basic-have-a-future.html#comment-135554 > I dislike the statement continuation character which is unnecessary in C# In VB 10, you don't need the statement continuation character any more. And you still don't need semi-colons. > If you want to do XNA games programming, currently only C# is supported. I find that to be the most frustrating thing about VB. Supposedly VB 9 was supposed to fix that, but nothing seems to have happened. > Nevertheless, I’m expecting VB usage to decline gradually. An external factor is the rise of the JavaScript family, which is more like C# than VB. That should be happening, but VB is beating out C# for downloads of the VS Express edition. > I dislike the statement continuation character which is unnecessary in C#

In VB 10, you don’t need the statement continuation character any more. And you still don’t need semi-colons.

> If you want to do XNA games programming, currently only C# is supported.

I find that to be the most frustrating thing about VB. Supposedly VB 9 was supposed to fix that, but nothing seems to have happened.

> Nevertheless, I’m expecting VB usage to decline gradually. An external factor is the rise of the JavaScript family, which is more like C# than VB.

That should be happening, but VB is beating out C# for downloads of the VS Express edition.

]]> By: John http://www.itwriting.com/blog/1540-does-visual-basic-have-a-future.html/comment-page-1#comment-135385 John Sun, 21 Jun 2009 08:30:59 +0000 http://www.itwriting.com/blog/1540-does-visual-basic-have-a-future.html#comment-135385 Or Delphi of course. Or Delphi of course.

]]> By: Ed http://www.itwriting.com/blog/1540-does-visual-basic-have-a-future.html/comment-page-1#comment-135201 Ed Fri, 19 Jun 2009 18:03:26 +0000 http://www.itwriting.com/blog/1540-does-visual-basic-have-a-future.html#comment-135201 Remember thinking the same 10 years ago. I guess it will always hang around for the non-software engineers who dabble. For someone serious about development then C#,Java or C/C++ have to be the choices. Remember thinking the same 10 years ago. I guess it will always hang around for the non-software engineers who dabble. For someone serious about development then C#,Java or C/C++ have to be the choices.

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