Anthony Anson wrote:
Oh, and in the Norwich PDSA shop on Saturday I bought The Idiot's Guide to Visual Basic 6, for the grand sum of 25p...
Actually, I mustn't be too frivolous - I do use VB occasionally, and now I've got (but not fitted) a DVD drive, I've an evaluation copy of VB.net to play with. So yes, I might be interested in a talk on it.
Ah, a terrible secret shame. Ah well, I guess many of us have done it, just to see what it's like. I know I have.
Don't get carried away, though. I've heard too much using visual basic makes you go blind - or even that it can make your moxie drop off.
Speaking of which, I took a stroll off to that site (I was lured), and saw a link that said "Why software development today is in crisis". http://vbug.net/articles/moredetails.asp?GUID=%7BC3C66887-85E9-4F25-AE84-3AE7128EFE1D%7D
After following countless billions of links-within-links-within-registration-processes, I found they saw no link whatsoever between the titular assertion (software dev being "in crisis"), and the fact that Visual Basic is supposed to be the most popular programming language on the planet.
A crippling lack of insight, perhaps?
..Maybe I'm just a sour, rambling git when influenzificated.