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Switching Code

Posted by jamba on February 6, 2010

Where I work, I am a software engineer–so I do a lot of coding.  In the (almost) 4 years I have been there, we (another se, and me) have used mostly VB6 for just about everything…and we have several programs that we have written in-house that range in function.  Mostly data handling/analyzation/stuff.

Anyway, as Win7 and Vista started spreading around and VB6 does not even run the IDE on those OS’s, we started searching for coding alternatives over a year ago.

The primary choices were:

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New section in forums: programming.

Posted by jamba on January 9, 2010

I added a new “programming” section to the forums.  I figured this made sense, as it is what I do for a living, should help me keep things straight, and maybe I can provide some info for people looking for related material.

Although I do mostly…well…predominantly Windows programming, hopefully I can work in some linux coding as well.

Currently I just added these sections:

  • General – what it sounds like
  • BASIC – basic language, w/ subforums PowerBasic and PureBasic
  • C

I  use mostly PowerBasic these days at work, converting from old VB6.  Things are always subject to change, though.

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