<OT> Can't believe it but its true: Visual basic can't sort

[Bill Campbell]

On Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 07:00:26AM -0400, Joel Hammer wrote:
>Just do a goggle:
>     sort vba
>It will get you all the links you want.
>Here is the one I happened to to use. A bubble sort. Very simple and fast
>enuf for what I need.
>http://chrisrae.com/vba/routines.html
>
>Another thing I can't believe is the fact that multidimensional arrays are so
>bad in visual basic that the book on VB 6.0  from Microsoft says
>don't even bother to use them, just use single dimensional arrays with
>array variables.  

After all it is BASIC, and the ``B'' originally stood for ``Beginners''.
The BASIC language was never intended to be anything but something to make
it easy for first time students.

	``It is practically impossible to teach good programming style to
	students that have had prior exposure to BASIC: as potential
	programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of
	regeneration.''  -- Dijkstra

As for sorting, it appears that things haven't changed much since my last
programming effort on DOS in 1990 (which was only made possible when I
found the elvis editor and a working version of perl that ran on DOS).  I
originally bought the MKS toolkit, largely because it had a working version
of the Unix sort command.

Bill
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