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Newer page: version 6 Last edited on Wednesday, May 4, 2005 6:48:56 am by AristotlePagaltzis
Older page: version 5 Last edited on Tuesday, May 3, 2005 9:13:30 am by OrionEdwards Revert
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-[VisualBasic] also known as VB is the brand name [Microsoft] uses for their [BASIC]. It has little to do with the simplicity of [BASIC] but is quite restricted a ProgrammingLanguage compared to others. You shouldn 't use it if at all possible
+[VisualBasic], also known as VB, is the brand name MicrosoftCorporation use for their flavour of [BASIC]. Actually, it only vaguely resembles [BASIC] anymore, being far more complex, but is still quite a restricted ProgrammingLanguage compared to others. Don 't use it if you have a choice
  
-EdsgerWybeDijkstra would have hated it . :)  
+A variant called VBA, ie "VisualBasic for Applications", is used to script MicrosoftExcel/Word documents, and as a side-effect, often used to write macro [Virus]es . Thanks, [Bill | BillGates]!  
  
-A variant called VBA , ie " [VisualBasic ] for Applications" , is used to script MicrosoftExcel/Word documents . It is often used to write macro viruses . Thanks, Bill!  
+More recently, MicrosoftCorporation decided to reapply the VisualBasic brand onto something called __Visual Basic.NET__ , which has nothing to do with [BASIC ] and little with VisualBasic , and is basically [C#] using different syntax . Lots of VisualBasic developers got very angry at the loss of backwards compatibility
  
-More recently, MicrosoftCorporation decided to 'rewrite' Visual Basic into Visual Basic.NET, which bears even less resemblance to the original [BASIC], and is basically [C#] but using a slightly different syntax. Lots of Visual Basic developers all got very angry about this because it is not backwards compatible in any way, and is in fact not really even visual basic, it just looks like it.  
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