Oh the Memories

The next month or so, at work, will be mostly one project and one language ...

VB6

It is so weird coding in the first desktop language I ever learned. I remember back when I was just learning HTML and a little bit of CSS. I knew just enough to put up pages of info and horrible GIFs. I wanted to build desktop applications so I installed Visual Studio and began laying out forms etc. At the time I had no idea how to actually make it do anything, but my neat looking forms would display when I ran my creations.

Now I have nearly two decades of coding in various languages, project types, and platforms under my belt. It's interesting dealing with VB6's quirks and 'features'.

Most notable, it seems that IF statements consider every check in them, even if the first check(s) fail. At least that is how it was behaving. I had to break up the IF I was working on, nesting the second check inside the other - then it behaved as I expected. I am still able to web search any questions I have and there are plenty of topics and articles still out there. That's a good thing.

I'm guessing I'll have plenty more to say in the coming weeks and months.