Re: Wish I was using .net

"Michael D. Ober" <obermd.@.alum.mit.edu.nospam> wrote in message
news:%23Dz0ZKjNGHA.1760@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

I just wish MS hadn't thrown out the baby with the bathwater when
modernizing VB 6. As may people in this NG have correctly pointed out, MS
made a lot of changes to the VB language that break a lot of existing
code.
I suspect many of these changes were unnecessary, despite the
protestations
of the MS VB development team.

Mike Ober.

Actually, it's the MS VB dev team that put us in this mess. They're the ones
that did and want to be able to make future changes on a whim (depending on
the flavor of their starbucks that day)

Will VB ever be standardized?
"C# has been submitted and approved by the ECMA, will Visual Basic ever be
submitted?"
"Well, never say never, but there are no current plans to submit Visual
Basic to a standards body."
http://www.panopticoncentral.net/archive/2005/12/30/10911.aspx

....and, if you look at the language spec for VB2005, you'll see that the
language they used leaves this "I changed it because I can" rule intact.

"The information contained in this document represents the current view of
Microsoft Corporation on the issues discussed as of the date of publication.
Because Microsoft must respond to changing market conditions, it should not
be interpreted to be a commitment on the part of Microsoft, and Microsoft
cannot guarantee the accuracy of any information presented after the date of
publication.
This Language Specification is for informational purposes only. MICROSOFT
MAKES NO WARRANTIES, EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR STATUTORY, AS TO THE INFORMATION IN
THIS DOCUMENT"

The main problem with the VB team is.... they don't use VB. Never have,
never will. (I'm sure someone'll pop in and say "you're wrong, look at this
snip I wrote") Besides, they suffer from "all new team members" where one
team gets the boot and another takes its place and couldn't care less what
the previous team was doing. Too busy trying to be a Rock Star I guess....

NET Rock Star: Paul Vick
http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_zddvs/is_200404/ai_ziff124655/pg_2

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