Another "VB6 is a toy" comment from a C++'er: responses invited

[BobRodes]

From another forum:

Can you make a good product with Visual Basic? Sure. But would you want to? I wouldn't. It's like code-by-number & it's for moms, seniors, & all together computer programming degenerates that require constant hand-holding.

Are we going to take this kind of abuse lying down?

An unforeseen consequence of the information revolution has been the exponential propagation of human error.

 

[dilettante]

I just figure these are script kiddies living in Mom's basement.

A really experienced C++ programmer who actually knows VB will admit its value even if he hates using it himself. The rest don't know enough to have an opinion anyway.

I think a good number of the "VB is crap" comments come from people who started out trying to use it but never developed their knowledge far enough to do a good job with it. After they failed at VB they moved to something else, and by about the third hop finally knew enough to get something done.

It's a poor workman who blames his tools.

Of course it doesn't help that so many unskilled copy/paste coders tend to gravitate to VB because of the wealth of sample code out there to be copied.

 

[TysonLPrice]

Are we going to take this kind of abuse lying down? "

It's just like grade school...you ignore them and hope when they grow up they learn how wrong they were.

 

[strongm]

Just ignore it Bob.

 

[xwb]

You can write crap with any language, same as you can write good stuff with any language. It is nothing to do with the language.

 

[PeterWallace]

I have to agree with xwb.....

Unfortunatly I am better at the first part of His comment

Peter