Great programmers don't just happen !
Where do old programmers go when they stop programming ? Is the advancement of technology always a good thing ? What happens to technologies that get old, but still are quite viable ? And where does BASIC fit into all of this ? Let me start out by saying that by today’s programming standards I am an “old dinosaur”. Time
Read moreThis is a continuation of two other articles about BASIC, but with a twist, the addition of the WIN32 into the equation. The short version of my story is that I am a long time BASIC programmer and never regretted it. First experience with BASIC was back in 1975. After all those years it makes sense to explain not only
Read moreVisual Basic 6.0 just doesn’t want to disappear. Why ? Likely many have written vital applications using VB 6.0 and Visual Basic dot.net is so different that it is not a viable option. If you have thousands of lines of legacy VB code which can not be upgraded to dot.net easily, then what is a developer to do ? It
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