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		rbanffy on May 10, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: A TLS 1.3 stack written in Visual Basic 6 VB 6 paid for my first home. But yes, this is insanely brave. VB is not the most expressive language out there.

lelanthran on May 10, 2023 [–]

Yeah, but it's a humiliating lesson that good enough beats best.

More complex business logic was solved with VB than with Haskell. Same for JS, PHP, Python and all the other "poor" languages.

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