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Originally Posted by Digital_Trucker
Unfortunately, for me (at the moment, anyway), the only thing I have that I'm comfortable working with is Visual Basic, so this would be a nasty .NET app.
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Shame. You don't have VB6 I guess? I just hate it how such small and simple apps require 280mb of runtime files.
Hehe, I remember someone bragging to me recently that an app he wrote (unrelated to SH3 or SH4) was much smaller than a similar app I wrote - his was about 40kb, mine about 400kb. His argument crashed and burned though when I pointed out the 280
mb of runtime files needed to power his 40kb creation (as one needs the whole "framework" installed; they can't just pick and choose the individual runtimes) compared to the 0kb of files (outside of the OS itself of course) needed to power mine. :rotfl: At least this is now less of an issue for Vista users as they have the framework (read: MS PR for runtime files) installed by default. Only updating it becomes a hassle for them.
Don't get me wrong, I use the .NET framework too...when I have no choice.
Anyway, enough on my hate of .NET...
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Originally Posted by Digital_Trucker
I spent 16 years (from '76 to '92) programming IBM mainframes and midranges in Fortran, COBOL and Assembler, but VB is the one "semi-current" language that I'm even close to being proficient in.
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Ah, COBOL. Will still be in use when the "year 9999 bug" hits. :rotfl: