It’s a backronym, right?
Who, Me? Come with us on a journey back to the glory days of Visual Basic 6, misplaced enthusiasm and an unfortunate naming incident. Welcome to Who, Me? Today’s tale comes from a reader Regomised as “Stephen”, who was working in the IT department of a Royal Air Force base. “My duties were many,” he told us, “from running daily backups of an ancient engineering system using (I kid you not) reel-to-reel tapes to swapping out misbehaving printers.” This being the early 2000s, his boss loaded up our hero with more tasks. He could change printers and tapes, so Visual Basic (and its bedfellow, Access) should present no problem. And it wasn’t; ever keen to learn, Stephen knuckled down and got to grips with the delight that only Visual Basic for Applications could offer. A little knowledge, however, can be a dangerous thing. “The base,” he told us, “had many, many different squadrons, departments, offices and functions all of which had their own unique ridiculous demands [and] requirements but there was a single massive database to which everyone needed access.
