What people do in their own time in the privacy of their homes is none of my business. However, when they mess with reading documentation, then it crosses the line and becomes annoying. How many times do VB developers need to be told that a null is "Nothing"? Consider this snippet from MSDN:
-------The CreateUser method will return a null reference (Nothing in Visual Basic) if password is an empty string or a null reference (Nothing in Visual Basic), username is an empty string or a null reference (Nothing in Visual Basic) or contains a comma (,), passwordQuestion is not a null reference (Nothing in Visual Basic) and contains an empty string, or passwordAnswer is not a null reference (Nothing in Visual Basic) and contains an empty string.-------
Five times in one paragraph! I know null type systems are annoying and lead to errors, but that seems a bit excessive. Seriously though, it'd make more sense to make VB developers learn a few words once, rather than having to mess up documentation just in case they get confused.
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