VB6 Limitations?

[iago]

Ok, we know two things:
- VB6 sucks.  Ass. 
- I have to use VB6 on a huge upcoming project which'll probably be 4+ months
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- Life sucks. 


My company will probably earn a 6-digit sum for writing this, though, so I think I can live..

[AntiVirus]

Ok, we know two things:
- VB6 sucks.  Ass. 
- I have to use VB6 on a huge upcoming project which'll probably be 4+ months
--------
- Life sucks. 


My company will probably earn a 6-digit sum for writing this, though, so I think I can live..

Yeah..   I feel bad for you.   -ish

[Joe]

My theology on VB6 is that it makes a hard job easy but inefficient, and should be used when your development time is more important than your run efficiency. Every language has it's use, and learning programming is a nice use of VB. Sure, it can teach some bad habits (case insensitivity, non-explicit declarations) but it can teach basic principles (code seperation, scope). I can honestly say that I personally learned things in VB6 that I still use today in Java and C#.

Back on topic, VB can do anything C can, basically, except inline assembly and compile DLL's (which can be both done with sufficient tweaking, but I've never tried), but it's slow at doing it.

[rabbit]

It can't be compiled into machine code.  Owned.

[iago]

My theology on VB6 is that it makes a hard job easy but inefficient, and should be used when your development time is more important than your run efficiency. Every language has it's use, and learning programming is a nice use of VB. Sure, it can teach some bad habits (case insensitivity, non-explicit declarations) but it can teach basic principles (code seperation, scope). I can honestly say that I personally learned things in VB6 that I still use today in Java and C#.

Back on topic, VB can do anything C can, basically, except inline assembly and compile DLL's (which can be both done with sufficient tweaking, but I've never tried), but it's slow at doing it.

It makes a job hard for a decent programmer, because it's so painful to use.  It only makes a job easy for somebody who doesn't know what they're doing. 

It can't be compiled into machine code.  Owned.

Yes it can.  It's just done poorly and heavily relies on libraries.

[Sidoh]

My theology on VB6 is that it makes a hard job easy but inefficient, and should be used when your development time is more important than your run efficiency. Every language has it's use, and learning programming is a nice use of VB. Sure, it can teach some bad habits (case insensitivity, non-explicit declarations) but it can teach basic principles (code seperation, scope). I can honestly say that I personally learned things in VB6 that I still use today in Java and C#.

Theology is the study of religion...

Isn't that practice sort of obvious, though?  Any serious programmer knows the terrible aspects of VB6 and what a short time it takes to code a monstrosity.

Back on topic, VB can do anything C can, basically, except inline assembly and compile DLL's (which can be both done with sufficient tweaking, but I've never tried), but it's slow at doing it.

Big deal.  A buggy cart can travel as far as a Mercedes Benz, but that doesn't make the two comparable on that standard.

[MyndFyre]

Theology is the study of religion...

Have you ever read a programming book?  They talk about religious wars all the time...

[Sidoh]

Have you ever read a programming book?  They talk about religious wars all the time...

Hahahahah. <3

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