Elliott C. Back: Internet & Technology

Why VB is Bad for You

Posted in Code by Elliott Back on November 10th, 2004.

Here’s another reason why Visual Basic is bad for the programming soul, from The Daily WTF:

‘Check if we need to increase the array sizes
If recs > 475 Then
  Print recs
  MsgBox "Call I.S. to increase your array sizes!", vbOkOnly, "Too many warehouses"
  End
End If

We won’t resize our array if the company builds more warehouses. We’ll insist they call another department…

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2 Responses to “Why VB is Bad for You”

  1. Sikko2Go says:

    Dear Elliot,
    I don’t have the slightest ID what this has to do with VB being a bad programming language? As a hardcore VB-developer I couldn’t disagree with you more. The example above from the Daily WTF is only a sample of stupid programming, not proof that VB in itself is stupid… you can do the same stupid thing in Java, C# etc.
    just my personal 2c of course

  2. Elliott Back says:

    Not that VB is bad itself, or all VB coders are bad. It just happens that most really bad programming seems to be done in VB–a paradox, as it’s a modern language with some great features and strong typing.

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