Re: One thing I noticed

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"Michael C" <mculley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> "Karl E. Peterson" <karl@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>> A lot of guys who were too young to remember have that same trouble,
>> yeah.
>>
>> MSBasic has been around since 1976. Windows, from this perspective,
>> didn't come into
>> the picture until 1991. Well-designed business logic migrated
>> without issue, and in
>> fact *still* loads just fine into VB6.
>
> I just can't see an app written in 1976 not needing a mojor rewrite,
> it must still use a text file probably loading all the data into
> memory in one go, dumping it all back to the text file in the end
> with no network support. And that's just one part of the app, I can
> only guess at the other sins that must be under the hood.

Previously, applications evolved over time; sections could be rewritten to
take advantage of newer possibilities while still being integrated into the
whole. The "same" app at the end of 20 years might have relatively little
original code but at no point would it have been rewritten. It would have
been great to be able to bring a VB6 app into dotnet and then begin
replacing pieces over time as need dictated and resources permitted.

Instead, the choice now is to halt the evolutionary process while the entire
body of code is redesigned and rewritten or hack it by trying to wedge
dotnet components into the mix and having a Frankenstein's monster instead
of a coherent design.

MS blew it big time by not providing a real VB language within the dotnet
framework.

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