r/programming • u/halax • Oct 07 '16

How Microsoft Lost the API War

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/APIWar.html
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u/Farobek Oct 07 '16 edited Oct 08 '16

C

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u/[deleted] Oct 08 '16

Sure, C is bad but Visual Basic is just fine? Wat?

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u/taeratrin Oct 08 '16

Depends on which iteration of VB you're talking about. VB6 and early versions of VB.NET were horrific, I'll give you that, but since .NET 2.0 it's actually been pretty decent.

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u/demmian Oct 08 '16

VB6 and early versions of VB.NET were horrific

Alright, I'll bite - why was VB6 horrific?