lou_dias wrote:
I've taken C and C++ academically. Got an A and a B respectively. I had an A in C++ all semester long but in the final project, I made it SO object-oriented and used every feature of the language just to prove I could (like a dork) and then the damn thing just crashed at the same point for no apparent reason. I ran it on an Amige C++ compiler and on Visual Studio 6 (at the time). I re-checked everything atleast 20 times over in the course of 2 weeks. I could not get the final project to work right because the language was the barrier. It leads to cryptic code, the reference of a reference of a reference of a pointer. BLAH! It's garbage.
In VB, you code it, it works. If it doesn't you know why in about 10 seconds. The job gets done. Everybody's happy.
I agree with you about the C syntax. I'm using my C knowledge to help with a Basic compiler. I just hope we get the OOP syntax well enough to compete with VB.NET.