Hi, one of my friends says he is going to learn Visual Basic. Not wanting to
sound stupid, I just replied, "Good Choice". What is Visual Basic and what
does it do? Is it any good, Worth Learning? Thanks for any help.

Paul wrote:
language, like C++ etc.

As to whether its any good, and worth learning, I couldn't comment. Last
time I saw VB was version 3.0, which was 10 years ago now.

Don't mean to be rude, but a Google on "visual basic" would have
answered this. Oh, and for the record, this is the wrong group for this
sort of thing. There's a VB group, no doubt.

Thanks! Much appreciated

Paul.
"Leythos" <void@nowhere.com> wrote in message
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The advantage of learning VB 6 is that Visual C++
or C# is nothing but eye candy with absolutely no
documentation at all. Both are impossible to do
serious work that is not just re-writing some kind
of word processor or low-end CAD app. VB 6
will allow top down code to be embedded in a
visual model with ease, and there is a world of
documentation supporting it. I challenge a beginning
programmer trying to have a good learning experience
to add 2 + 2 in Visual C++. That is something you
should try right away, and get clued in to what a
total waste of time it is.

johns

Leythos wrote:

VB.NET has a built-in utility to convert existing VB applications to
VB.NET. Or are you talking about something else?


-WD

"Will Dormann" <wdormann@yahoo.com.invalid> wrote in message
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It will not even convert the simplest of applications without going back and
manually editing a truck load of code. You will never find anyone attempting
to convert anything of any real size, as only a re-write would make sense.