Re: to Ken Halter and the other dedicated VB MVPs
From: MM (kylix_is_at_yahoo.co.uk)
Date: 01/23/05
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Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2005 16:49:10 +0000
On Tue, 18 Jan 2005 19:26:33 GMT, "smith"
<rcsTAKEOUT@smithvoiceTAKEOUT.com> wrote:
>The intense off-topic VB6/VB.Net thread "Where is the Key in Treeview.Net"
>(started Dec 2 2004 and cross-posted to every VB group under the sun) really
>got me to thinking.
>
>And that thinking got me to typing this:
>
>http://www.smithvoice.com/C1swf.htm
>
>All the best in 2005 and here's hoping that this year's Visual Basic release
>will be more to the VB core's liking.
>
>Robert Smith
>Kirkland, WA
>www.smithvoice.com
I read that article of yours (http://www.smithvoice.com/C1swf.htm) and
I am reassured that old, real VB-ers simply refuse to crawl away and
die! There is one problem with VB.Net. It isn't Visual Basic! Sure,
call it C# with BASIC-like syntax if you wish, but it bears as much
comparison to VB6 and earlier versions that my late gran ever did to
Julia Roberts (well, they were both women, I suppose).
Good to hear that there are new products like Flash and Actionscript.
Over here in "old" Europe we use Flash to clean the floors, but if it
works on Windows, too, then maybe I'll take a look. I did just click
on the link "if current releases are any indicator" and was shunted on
to a Microsoft web site, where, after interminable churning of my
modem for a few minutes, it just said "Flash 7 Not Detected" or some
such, at which point I thought, Bill Gates is still in charge, then.
Then I left. (I usually treat Microsoft with contempt. Sorry, it's the
way I'm made.)
As for giving VB what VB-ers allegedly said they needed, what they got
was worse than a hole in the head. Where *were* all the folks crying
out for OOP in a quick-n-dirty RAD program generator? Only a very
small proportion from the three million-odd VB programmers, going on
what I was reading at the time. Countless MVPs themselves criticised
VB.Net and said that Microsoft was completely on the wrong track. And
then Microsoft delivered a product that hardly anyone had a good word
to say about, and it seems, even after three or more years, still
don't.
I still fire up my trusty VB6 occasionally, like going out into the
yard and kicking the tyres on an old Fordson tractor. VB6 still works
fine. One day, someone with more foresight than Bill Gates, Stevie
"Developers" Ballmer, and several others put together will produce a
new state-of-the-art simple RAD to rival real Visual Basic, i.e. the
one prior to VB.Net, and the world will beat a path to that
innovator's door. Meanwhile, OOP fanatics will just have to see how
far they can get on Microsoft's managed platforms with 100 meg
downloads.
MM
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