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My first memorable program was an interactive maze written in Visual Basic for Applications (yes, within Word). It was mostly a bunch of nested if statements, as that was most all I understood at the time.

Sometimes I still think of VB, though it’s been a decade since I wrote any — especially with certain Chinese foods. DIM SUM NICE FOODS, reads the storefront. Yes, I think. But dim sumNiceFoods as what?



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