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Competition places start at 0 (lemmy.world)
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[-] psvrh@lemmy.ca 7 points 3 months ago

But what about that one guy who writes absolutely brilliant VB?

[-] einlander@lemmy.world 12 points 3 months ago

Ahem:

OPTION BASE 0

Bam, Qbasic AND Visual Basic has 0 based arrays.

[-] dohpaz42@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago

Depends on the version of VB. It seems VB .NET uses zero-based indexed arrays.

[-] AsudoxDev@programming.dev 3 points 3 months ago

Who cares? VB is dead and long forgotten.

[-] psvrh@lemmy.ca 19 points 3 months ago

Oh, if only that were true.

[-] AsudoxDev@programming.dev 4 points 3 months ago

What? People still use VB? dear god...

[-] frezik@midwest.social 7 points 3 months ago

Languages don't die. They have long tails.

[-] 2pt_perversion@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago

They definitely do, especially legacy stuff that's still kicking. Sweet, sweet tech debt that you hope won't be a real problem until you've moved to a different company.

[-] magikmw@lemm.ee 6 points 3 months ago

Fucking finances and their macro-enabled excel spreadsheets!

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