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Competition places start at 0 (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 month ago by ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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[–] psvrh@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 month ago (3 children)

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

[–] einlander@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago

Ahem:

OPTION BASE 0

Bam, Qbasic AND Visual Basic has 0 based arrays.

[–] dohpaz42@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

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

[–] AsudoxDev@programming.dev 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Who cares? VB is dead and long forgotten.

[–] psvrh@lemmy.ca 19 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Oh, if only that were true.

[–] AsudoxDev@programming.dev 4 points 1 month ago (3 children)

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

[–] frezik@midwest.social 7 points 1 month ago

Languages don't die. They have long tails.

[–] 2pt_perversion@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month 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 1 month ago

Fucking finances and their macro-enabled excel spreadsheets!