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    18 hours ago

    Ooh then I have a good campfire story for you.

    I know of a company who still has a VB.NET app running.

    There used to be more just a few years ago, but I’ve managed to get them to let me modernize most of them.

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      10 hours ago

      VB.NET isn’t all that uncommon - it isn’t exactly Fortran, and it’s still maintained by Microsoft. I know a senior engineer that still writes a lot of new code in VB.NET because he’s just used to it…

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        It is not, and I’ve heard of people preferring it even. Just not me. In my eyes, it’s just a worse version of the C#.NET aspx views that might make OC shudder again.

        Maybe more to your tastes, we also still have COBOL systems. Not quite Fortran old, but close

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        18 hours ago

        Pretty much. .NET 4.7.2

        It’s the same normal view / control pattern but with VB for the logic instead of C#.

        There’s also global pages with a bunch of events like error or pre/post request that probably exists in the C# version I guess, but I only remember dealing with it in VB

        This particular system also comes with a pure VB batch script running on a schedule.

        Just very old, frustrating to deal with, slammed in security audits.

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          16 hours ago

          As an Australian, I understand what happened. They were all drinking VB while coding it.

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            11 hours ago

            Its not even that interesting. Working with Visual Basic is coding with all the fun sucked out of it.