Re: Visual Basic 6.0 support

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Dan? Dan who? Are you referencing another thread?
If so, please indicate which, thank you.

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"Bryan Utley" <bryanutley2000NON@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>I am not sure who this Dan guy is or what he does for a living, but I
> don't think I have ever run across a man who acts like such a spoiled
> child. After reading his post, you would think Microsoft or Ballmer
> himself stole his his wife and raped his dog.
>
> I have been programming for 23 years as a profession beginning with
> Cobol and CICS. I was even using QBasic years ago and remember when
> VB-1 came out. People were all excited about the increased
> capabilities
> of the language. In addition, I have read forums about people
> bitching
> that VB-1/2/3/4/5 and now VB-6 could not do this or that and why
> Microsoft didn't give it most popular programming language the power
> and/or flexibility to access certain objects or capabilities of
> Windows.
>
> Now Microsoft has provided these same capabilities to VB that C/C++
> programmers have enjoyed for years. I moved to VB.net in 2002 and
> have
> not looked back one bit. When I find it necessary to update an older
> application, I simply fire up VB6 and go.
>
> And as for Dan, I am sure that he is still crying and bashing
> Microsoft
> that they no longer support Logo or QBasic. As with everything
> involving computers it is necessary to be dynamic and flexible, or we
> would all still be programming in MASM or interperter Basic using our
> brand new 8Mhz 8088 system from IBM.
>
> As far as I am concerned, sure I think it would be nice if Microsoft
> would come out with a VB-7 and 8 and so on, but that is simply not in
> the cards. I see no reason to bash Microsoft, I don't always agree
> with
> there decisions but I do not sit in on every meeting in Redmond and I
> do
> not listen to the request of hundreds of thousands of users like
> Microsoft employees do.
>
> If I do not like a television program I simply change the channel
> until
> that program is finished. Just because ABC or NBC aires a bad program
> I
> don't boycott the network.
>
> I think Microsoft has the most refined and polished tools for
> development at this time, so I use them.
>
> Bryan Utley
>
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