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In Topic: Visual Basic support for Netduino and .NET MF now in beta
17 July 2011 - 03:50 PM
I haven't stopped by the forum for a while.... awesome to see this news! Thank you guys!
In Topic: Visual Basic
19 August 2010 - 04:19 PM
xc2rx: I started programming in Basic on the Commodore and Apple II. I currently program in VB.Net and I've written applications such as a macro parser and direct serial port support (with some multithreading). But I'm not a professional programmer and I have no desire to be one. I've worked in C/C++ (though not recently and not C#), and in my opinion the C languages are just not as good for the hobbyist programmer. Get the punctuation wrong in VB and you get an error. Easy to fix. Get the punctuation wrong in C and you can completely alter what the program does. Not so easy to figure out what went wrong. That's fine if you are programming every day and will get it right every time but as a hobbyist I don't maintain that level of fluency and it means that VB is much, much easier to debug. And in terms of what it is possible to do with C# vs VB, there really isn't much difference anymore, by design. Switching to C# would take time but provide very little benefit. Basically it would just make more sample code available to cannibalize...
In Topic: Visual Basic
07 August 2010 - 04:46 PM
I've got to finish learning MySQL before I can take on another language... with any luck you'll have VB support by the time I am ready for the next project. Thanks for the update, though, I will keep an eye on Netduino.
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