By mswatcher
via codebetter.com
Published: Aug 12 2008 / 11:14
I've spent a great deal of time in the last week reverse engineering legacy VB6 code, and I'd like to rant a little bit. What's making my life harder is how large and complex the methods are in each class module. The code is very procedural, with little usage of subroutines. The VB functions are several pages long, if/then nesting goes 6 or 7 deep, and case statements span hundreds of lines. Unsurprisingly
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eelmore replied ago:
I'm not condoning unnecessarily long segments of code, but I'm never surprised by the apparent low level of skill or experience displayed by any piece of VB6 code. If it was written in VB6, either the developer was limited against his will and forced to work in a language unfamiliar to him, or he just didn't know any better.
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