Perfered Programming Language

[Sidewinder]

ya  but the book  helps me learn it

Good point. 

[BC_Programmer]

that would be flash

Well- Flash is the name of the software. ActionScript is the language, and I personally hate it. It claims to be objet oriented and yet just tosses almost everything into a single _root object. Who calls a object with a name starting with a bloody underscore?

It can make some really need stuff in the skilled hands, but I personally think it's a more jumbled mess then Perl.

VB 6, it was free so i didnt complain, but today we had the wrong version of VB, the textbox we were using was about VB .NET so we may have a change on the textbox or on the software.

do you mean the textbook you were using? because it's a bit difficult to put a VB6 textbox on a .NET form or vice versa.

VB6 isn't free, except in a stripped down Learning edition.

[KenJackson]

I picked "C" in the poll, but I would have picked Bash shell script if it was an option. 

It's just amazing what you can do in a shell script.

[Aegis]

Agreed, Ken.  Before I had Informix available at work, I wrote and maintained a small database program using shell script.  It was fun.

[qinghao]

Basic, take Visual Basic for example,it is easy to learn and easy to use ,
although its performances lower than C/C++.

[macdad-]

Basic, take Visual Basic for example,it is easy to learn and easy to use ,
although its performances lower than C/C++.

i am taking it, but go with VB .NET, even though i like VB6(because im used to it), the .NET version is much more powerful

[SEBNN]

I choose C# because of the 2 I have used it seemed the most versatile.  However, I am currently learning Java out of necessity as the program I want to automate only has an included Java window for automating the program.  Oh the fun!

[macdad-]

that would be flash

Well- Flash is the name of the software. ActionScript is the language, and I personally hate it. It claims to be objet oriented and yet just tosses almost everything into a single _root object. Who calls a object with a name starting with a bloody underscore?

i tried AS, it sucked. and the debugger is no help anyways and i agree 100% with you.

[macdad-]

and BC, it was VB6 Portable edition. which was free.

[BC_Programmer]

and BC, it was VB6 Portable edition. which was free.

The only free version from MS is the learning edition (legally, of course). Technically this "portable edition" doesn't officially exist and rather is essentially illegal. Not that I care, I'm gonna try it anyway. ALthough the question arises as to wether there is any point to trying it since I have the Visual Studio 6.0 Enterprise... Does this work on a USB key on other computers then?

[priya1]

I prefer C and  C++  language. In this we can use some syntax .because these are
programming   language.

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[macdad-]

and BC, it was VB6 Portable edition. which was free.

The only free version from MS is the learning edition (legally, of course). Technically this "portable edition" doesn't officially exist and rather is essentially illegal. Not that I care, I'm gonna try it anyway. ALthough the question arises as to wether there is any point to trying it since I have the Visual Studio 6.0 Enterprise... Does this work on a USB key on other computers then?

yes it works on a USB key, aparntly this so called protable edition puts all the files in your temp folder when you run it. it seems like someone else owns the licesnes for it. though. BC i didnt make this and i just looked up VB6 on google and i found VB6 Portable. but look at the about.

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[BC_Programmer]

Hmm, I might try it, or at least test it out. I don't really need it right now, since I've graduated School ages ago. (I could have really used it then...). But one can never predict when they'll be at somebody elses computer (without Visual Studio Installed) and just NEED to run the IDE or something.


It's a community modification. The only Microsoft-released versions of Visual Basic 6 were the Learning Edition, Professional Edition, and Enterprise edition. Strange stuff happens when you mess around with the files however, for example installing the pro edition in a USB key, and running it on another computer will show the splash screen with the text "Working Model Edition". Whatever that is...

[macdad-]

the portable version works on a USB drive but it requires you to add it to the registry to make the exe file.

[BC_Programmer]

I hate to say it, but we really shouldn't be discussing The "portable Edition" of VB6, since as I said it is not an official distribution. I wasn't sure, so I decided to take a gander at the resources in VBA6IDE.DLL...

String Table 842 reveals the following values:

13456,    "Learning Edition"
13457,    "Professional Edition"
13458,    "Enterprise Edition"
13459,    "Control Creation Edition Version 6.0"


However, there is no occurence of the word portable besides an error message in the entire file. VB6.EXE itself has only one string table, containing a few error messages.


Therefore, the portable edition is a infringement on Microsoft's EULA for Visual Basic 6.0, which includes modifications to the Binary images provided.


Not that I'm against it at all, We just wouldn't want ComputerHope getting in trouble for our discussion, would we?

Also: I hate to burst your bubble but all they changed was a resource file (thus adding the "portable" word in there). The actual version is the professional Edition, with a few features removed. This is the reason the registry requires editing- the professional version won't compile without a change when placed on portable media and run on a foreign computer. I experimented with my USB key and the Visual Studio CD to install a portable version onto the key, and the best I could come up with was a .REG file to make the necessary changes. Looks like this "portable" edition has the same problem? Or does it actually save settings in an INI on the key?