Thread: Is Assembly a programming language?
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Old Jun 22nd, 2006, 6:19 PM   #49
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Originally Posted by big_k105
Well I thought I would chime in on this. All those languages in that list on that nerd quiz are programming languages, the thing the quiz was getting at was which one, if your friend programmed in that language would you possibly think less of him. If you read alot of places, there are alot of programmers and geeks that make fun of Visual Basic and say its not a REAL Programming Language, even though in reality it is a programming language.
I can't talk for others, but when I, jokingly, say that Visual Basic is not a "real" programming language, I don't mean it in the literal sense. I mean that you shouldn't use it when there are better things out there. Obviously it is a programming language, any moron should know that.
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