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pjmlp on Feb 23, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: QuickBASIC Lives on with QB64

VB.NET is widely used in life sciences labs, where most of the systems are Windows machines connected to devices like this one.

https://www.biotek.com/products/imaging-microscopy-cell-imag...

So researchers already used to VBA, usually get IT to install VB.NET and go from there.

However I have started to see a trend of them moving into R.

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