Re: VB6 or VB.NET as entry language?

From: BeastFish (beastfish_at_for-president.com)
Date: 04/13/04 

Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2004 03:20:05 -0400

And jumping on the dotnet bandwagon prematurely has it's downside too. The
new XP service pack (upcoming, or has it arrived?) breaks the dotnet
framework. Apparently, the dotnet framework has some security issues.

"Jonathan Wood" <jwood@softcircuits.com> wrote in message
news:eFt$hoPIEHA.716@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
> Petrik,
>
> > > VB is destined for the scap heap and will no longer be supported by
> > > Microsoft in the near future.
> >
> > ...and this also derives to the fact that Microsoft will no longer
> > introduce new bugs that we developers have to work around.
> >
> > VB6 is finally stable, thank The Bill. (oh well, SP6 is here to bug
> > as all, but we'll get around it evetually)
>
> Ha! <g>
>
> Expect new bugs with each new version of Windows. (XP has already caused
> several as I understand.)
>
> Personally, I think it would be crazy to continue using a product that has
> been deemed obsolete by its author.
>
> --
> Jonathan Wood
> SoftCircuits
> http://www.softcircuits.com

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