Re: Vb Global variables

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From: Bill (bill_at_home.org)
Date: 05/16/04 

Date: Sun, 16 May 2004 09:07:25 -0700

Duane,

    Hmmm....you sound as old as I feel some days. My first programming
experience was in 1969 learning Fortran IV on a Burroughs 5500. About 11
years later I bought an Apple II+ and learned various forms of Basic. In
1981 I took a semester of Cobol on an IBM 370-138 system. About 10 years
later a semester of Pascal...do I see a pattern here??

Bill
"Duane Bozarth" <dp_bozarth@swko.dot.net> wrote in message
news:40A78353.E8C27C09@swko.dot.net...
> Bill wrote:
> >
> > Thanks Duane,
> >
> > Will need to try some implementation of your coding. Not being
famaliar
> > with VB has its inherent problem for an old style programmer who shunned
the
> > Visual structure for some 10 years now. Hopefully I can now clear my
head
> > of all the older DOS based Pascal I did in the past. And thanks to
living
> > in the NW I occasionally get free software from Microsoft for Usability
> > Studies I do. Will be getting Visual Studio Pro to play with soon for
free.
>
> Simply paste the code in a Form and add three buttons and one text
> box--it should then run as is. I could have made it w/fewer buttons,
> but the code is cleaner this way.
>
> As an old fogey who first wrote FORTRAN for an IBM 1620, I sympathize
> with the mind recast required to leave fully sequential coding for the
> event-driven model. I, too, had a <very> difficult time initially
> although that for me has now been >10 years since we moved the online
> analyzer from Professional Basic to VB. As an engineer I do
> computational stuff and only put a VB front end on mostly Fortran
> calculation engines, but enjoy the VB ng's to help where my experience
> fits...
>
> Re you're other work, I've always thought MS was <particularly> weak in
> that area, although it seems we've come to expect everything else to
> work as poorly. :( Hopefully you can have a positive influence. I've
> wondered if the tools MS internally uses to develop code are as painful
> to use as I find VS or whether it's just me being an old fogey that
> can't adapt to their tools. While some features in the debugger, for
> example, are really nice, the editors are simply awful about stealing
> real estate and requiring far too much mousey interaction or inflexible
> key codings that aren't fully rebindable, for example. But, I
> diverge...

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