Chaotis wrote:Um, actually I just decided to join, though I've read messages here a few times. Maybe you should actually respond instead of calling me names, or you can always apologize to her and leave it at that.
"Actually I'm pretty sure she was pointing out how many beginner programmers, the kind that only know how to use languages like VB, often don't know just how complex some games can be before wanting to attempt them themselves. Always a case of the more you know, the more you know you don't know anything. (That's a phrase btw, don't take it as a personal attack at you or anything.) It's more apparent to me that you just got upset by it and for some reason took it personally."
you completely missed what i was trying to say with that. that note implies that she does not have a good view of VB.
i never wanted to bash her personally, just used that as an example. i think if you read you will notice i include my self in the people that do this..
"There's no reason you can't, but there's no reason you can't write an MMO in qbasic either with enough hacks and extra work if you're willing to give up a lot of efficiency and quality in the end. Again I don't recall her ever saying VB or any other language is "shitty" but pointed out that it's not exactly suited for the situation. Any decent programmer knows each language has it's advantages and disadvantages and when designing a massively complex program such as an MMO you typically can't accept a huge loss in efficiency. This is the exact reason they often hand optimize a lot of functions on mmo servers in assembler. Sure, again, they could have used VB but realistically it's just a bad idea. The same thing stands true that I wouldn't expect you to use C++ to make basic frontends for things like emulators and command line programs."
VB is far more capable and complex than what you know, comparing it to qbasic is laughable.
"No, but you posted it while knowing that a lot of people that frequent this forum know who she is, don't play innocence when you know exactly what you were doing. Personally I probably would have warned or banned you if I were an administrator on this forum, for starting such a useless topic to bash another member because she posted something that you didn't particularly like and then started stuffing words in her mouth."
omg. this comming from someone who has never posted before. and according to her a personal friend.. your opinion is so unbiased...
