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April 20th, 2005, 10:17 PM
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Re: OT: Look what I can do...
Gotta take my hat off to anyone who's got the initiative to learn a programminglanguage this "late in the game". 
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Re: OT: Look what I can do...
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Gotta take my hat off to anyone who's got the initiative to learn a programminglanguage this "late in the game".
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Amen brother.
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Re: OT: Look what I can do...
Anyone who knows more than one language would be hard pressed to tell you to learn or not learn any particular programming language without afew more answers. In other words, dont bother learning VB unless and until you have a reason to. Something that you want to do, which it does well. Same goes for any other language. They all have their pros and cons
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Re: OT: Look what I can do...
My first program was indeed a hello world program written in BASIC, on the Apple IIE. I was so happy and proud to be learning how to program a computer. That was a long long time ago. That year I went on to write spagetti code. In those days, each line of code had a line number and you had stuff like, "100 goto 250".
Then when I took my first programming course in university, on the first day the professor asked, "put up your hand if your first programming language was BASIC". I put up my hand, along with about half the people in the class. The professor says, "You are all contaminated - you learned to write spagetti code!". That course used Modula-2, and they were very strict about your code being neatly organized. That was a good thing, because I got rid of the bad habits I picked up earlier.
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