From: Jeremy McAnally <jeremymcanally@...>
Date: 2006-12-15T05:34:28+09:00
Subject: Re: What is the meaning of Dim

That story is untrue, and I believe meant as a joke. :)

At least I hope so, because the proper explanation is that Dim means
"dimension" as others mentioned before.

--Jeremy

On 12/14/06, Jason Roelofs <jameskilton@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 12/14/06, Tom Werner <pubsub@rubyisawesome.com> wrote:
> >
> > chen li wrote:
> > > Dim in VBA is a key word used to define variable. But
> > > what does it stand for? For example
> > >
> > > Dim varCopy As Long
> > >
> >
> > VB was actually created as a joke programming language by a college
> > student. He used 'Dim' for variable definition as a tongue-in-cheek
> > insult to those foolish enough to stumble across and end up using his
> > little project. Ironically, Microsoft ended up picking up the fledgling
> > language as their script of choice for business app customization, much
> > to the delight of the language's originator--for what could make better
> > comedy than throngs of business professionals typing Dim all day long,
> > secure in the thought that they were using a productive programming
> > language. Just the thought of it still makes me twitter with glee.
> >
> > Tom
>
>
> Do you have any proof of this? I can't find such a story anywhere (after
> googling for about 5 minutes, of course. Yay work!)
>
> Jason
>
>