> The right programming language is the one that lets you express yourself clearly and accurately, and solves your problem with a reasonable tradeoff between implementation overhead and execution costs.
Yeah but thats not the reason why BASIC is around is it? Its around simply as legacy or because MS insists on including it with Excel which makes it a path of least resistance choice. Lets not get too high and mighty about BASIC or VB.NET like stuff. They are bad tools, so are most other tools we use. We just make it work not because its possible, but because nobody wants to go through the requisition forms.
Edit: This comment is brought to you by my painful existence with MATLAB
Yeah but thats not the reason why BASIC is around is it? Its around simply as legacy or because MS insists on including it with Excel which makes it a path of least resistance choice. Lets not get too high and mighty about BASIC or VB.NET like stuff. They are bad tools, so are most other tools we use. We just make it work not because its possible, but because nobody wants to go through the requisition forms.
Edit: This comment is brought to you by my painful existence with MATLAB