With scenes like that and the ‘two characters typing on the same keyboard to hack faster’ one, I’m 90% sure it’s just the writers having fun and seeing what they can get away with. Long-running formulaic shows must be boring as hell to write for, so I can understand the impulse.
It’s just about the easiest language to create a GUI in, too. It’s like saying “I’ll write a quick Hello World in Python, and then we’ve got this case in the bag!”
With scenes like that and the ‘two characters typing on the same keyboard to hack faster’ one, I’m 90% sure it’s just the writers having fun and seeing what they can get away with. Long-running formulaic shows must be boring as hell to write for, so I can understand the impulse.
Funny enough, writing a GUI using VB.NET isn’t even a bad idea, it just didn’t have anything to do with the task
It’s just about the easiest language to create a GUI in, too. It’s like saying “I’ll write a quick Hello World in Python, and then we’ve got this case in the bag!”