Re: One thing I noticed

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"J French" <erewhon@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> B*ll*cks - VB6 is just a slightly enhanced version of VB5

I meant vb6 needed a rewrite so they did dotnet.

> I've been coding since 1977 and have only ever done one major
> re-write, and that was porting a fairly complex DOS EXE (not system)
> to Windows - and even then that was 90% cut and paste.

You can do the cut-n-paste into dot net, i've done a couple of dlls that
were just a line by line translation. It doesn't take that long and that was
from vb6 to C#.

Michael


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