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[–] ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 8 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

More like all the On Error Resume Next statements. Which wasn't even the worst thing about Visual Basic! VB also had the On Error Resume statement. On Error Resume Next at least moved on to the next line after an error occurred; On Error Resume just re-executed the error-generating line, I guess on the assumption that something would eventually change there.

[–] locuester@lemmy.zip 5 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

There would just be one of those, at the top of the 1 file…

[–] ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 3 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

On Error was used within a function, so you would have one (or more ... or less) per function.

[–] locuester@lemmy.zip 4 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Oof indeed! After 40 years, I forgot it even had fns

[–] ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 3 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

I started with VB3, which didn't have custom classes. I have no idea how I did anything back then, but at least it was better than TurboBasic.

[–] locuester@lemmy.zip 1 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

I did years of gw-basic, then ms quickbasic, j++, java, c#, now rust.

[–] voodooattack@lemmy.world 3 points 16 hours ago

Interesting to meet another person that went through the “GW-BASIC to Rust” journey. Mine was through FreeBasic and C++ in the middle but we ended up in the same neighbourhood.

[–] ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 1 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) (1 children)

I did BASIC on the Apple IIe, then TurboBasic, Visual Basic (3, 4, 5 and 6 with some C in there somewhere), VB.Net, C#, Java, Objective-C and finally QT. Now I drive a school bus.

[–] locuester@lemmy.zip 1 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Omg you landed my dream job. Another couple years and I can quit this desk shit and go make kids lives better.

[–] ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 1 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Lol "landed". We are fucking desperate for drivers. So desperate that one of our drivers totaled two cars in one day last year and didn't even get suspended.

[–] locuester@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 hour ago

Yeah probably similar a lot of places. It is the same here. Always signs up everywhere begging for bus drivers. Crazy