Linus Torvalds on Visual Basic

28. Jul, 2006 2 Comments

Jaroslaw Rzeszotko wrote a number of ‘great programmers’ to see if they could answer a number of questions about what it takes to become a great programmer. He then blogged the answers.

Linus, said this in his answer to the question: What do you think will be the next big thing in computer programming? X-oriented programming, y language, quantum computers, what?

For example, I personally believe that “Visual Basic” did more for programming than “Object-Oriented Languages” did. Yet people laugh at VB and say it’s a bad language, and they’ve been talking about OO languages for decades.

And no, Visual Basic wasn’t a great language, but I think the easy DB interfaces in VB were fundmantally more important than object orientation is, for example.

Read the rest of his answer to get the context.

Perhaps this will give a little more ammunition to the VB team to return VB to its roots :)

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2 Responses to “Linus Torvalds on Visual Basic”

  1. pUnk 29. Jul, 2006 at 8:59 pm

    VB is definitely one of those “pull-ins” that get people started programming. For me it was Resedit hacking (circa 1989).

  2. nucleocide 06. Feb, 2007 at 8:17 am

    I agree that sometimes user friendliness is more important than functionality, VB being the epitome of this.