Using the environment to help you in strange ways

This post is motivated by an article on Daily WTF. There, a professor teaching data structures reccommended that pupils use a ListBox to implement a sorted list data structure in Visual Basic 6. To be honest, I was a Visual Basic 6 programmer before I got to the Palm OS – and I think that this is a creative idea(altough it obviously misses the point here).

Basically, what we all want to do is get something that works out the front door as son and as cheap as possible. And why create a difficult thingy if it can be done the cheap way…

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