Re: VB6, VB2005, or Something Else?

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On Tue, 07 Mar 2006 07:14:50 -0600, Paul Clement
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On Mon, 6 Mar 2006 14:49:07 -0600, "Dan Barclay" <Dan@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

¤ <shrug> You are right, they screwed up both and I wish they'd changed
¤ neither. I happen to think core language is more important because there is
¤ simply no excuse to tie that to the platform. As I mentioned earlier, it is
¤ the effect that counts.
¤
¤ You call it unacceptable for your reasons, I'll call it unacceptable for
¤ mine.
¤
¤ Dan

My only point was that they had done it before with language extensions to Visual Basic so I'm not
sure why everyone was so shocked that they did it on a larger scale.

By the time VB 6.0 was released I was on my fourth version of their data access library. ;-)

And that is the lamest retort I can imagine. Nothing about the data
access library changes forced anyone into a complete rewrite situation,
Paul - ever. The worst breaking change was in 2.0 or 2.1 when they
changed the signature of an event routine and you had to change a single
argument in a routine that should never be in a production app anyway
because it involved data binding.

Does someone pay you to make these candy coated statements, Paul?

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