VB may have been intended to be used by hobbyists (no idea) but VBA was certainly intended for Business Use - why else put VBA into Business Apps like MS Excel ?Tenaja wrote:Phased out?!?!? VB was never thought of as a language to be used at work...only for hobbyists. They've just rebranded it with curly braces to make it acceptable in the workplace.Blood wrote:... Visual Basic but that being phased out and being replaced with C#....
I think you'll find there are 100's of Millions of lines of VBA being used to support business operations - some of it will be very good code, most of it will be little more than recorded macro's. VBA is great because it is allows non-specialist programmers (subject matter experts) to programatically develop their ideas.
I use VBA as business logic to drive a business analysis tool that uses Excel for number crunching. I am also in the middle of replacing a lot of that VBA with PB DLLs for performance, security and portability reasons.