Re: new version of visual basic is going to be released

> Also Editors were purely line editors. You requested some lines, changed
> them got another bunch of lines. etc. it got ugly. If anyone wants to know
> what if felt like - open Edlin.


Eeeee! Flashback! <g> It took me 15+ years to forget the "fun" of using a
line editor to code COBOL.

For what it's worth, COBOL uses a period (.) as a terminator. An IF sample
in COBOL (off the top of my head)...

IF LL NOT = ZERO
UNSTRING FLAGG DELIMITED BY '/'
INTO JUNKK WERKK
INSPECT WERKK REPLACING LEADING ' ' BY '0'
MOVE WERKK TO FNUM.

....where unstring, inspect, and move execute if LL ain't zero. Not
"shouting", all caps is a COBOL thang. Not to mention, forgetting a period
could give you 40 compile errors. To me, a period seems more logical a
terminator since I speak and write english. A semi-colon kinda says "wait,
there's more" :-) And lots a curly braces just make my eyes hurt (lol).



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