Why the fuck does microsoft feel the need to be different?

One small example is VBA (Visual Basic for Applications).

When calling a function iw does not allow you to use brackets.
Example: Funct (arg1, arg2) is not valid but Funct arg1, arg2 is.

If you want the damed brackets you'll have to use call.

Call Funct ( arg1, arg2)

because after the first function is called, functions within that as arguments need to have the brackets...

why does apple feel the need to be different?

@SukMikeHok Apple has said "Fuck universal standards" from day 1, and proceeded to try and come up with their own.

Cos args is considered an object of event origin carrying over these properties

Welcome in 2018 🤦‍♂️🤷‍♂️🥒

@karma I'm just annoyed that it throws an error whenever I do what every other language expects.Doesn't seem like a hard fix to at least allow them without requiring them

@Schroedinbug there is no normal, are you?

I see VBA hate I ++

tbf it's your fault, why are you using VBA?

@Krokoklemme Working in an office with very strong restrictions on what software can be used.

Everyone seems fine with reusing old documents and wasting time filling out things that are really easy to automate.

They used to type up letters by hand for each launch (we have about 1 per month and 20 or so letters per launch), which followed the sametemplate each time but with different dates, times and addresses.

To give you a better idea of the efficency of the office I am helping: they still have and use fax machines and IBM form viewer.

@rutee07 MS Access is pretty new to most and starting to gain wide spread use, not sure about FoxPro but I haven't seen it.