Re: VB6, VB2005, or Something Else?


"Andre Kaufmann" <andre.kaufmann.bei@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Gary Nelson wrote:
Paul,
[...]
Someone here seems to have missed the point.

I once thought the same way, that Microsoft could have done better, let's
say like Borland did with Delphi. But after reading the following article
www.itwriting.com/frozenvb6.php I'm not sure about that anymore.

Should add: I'm not a VB expert to be able to 100% verify the statements
made in this article.

I didn't waste my time reading every word of the article. It was clear
within a minute that the author was interested in selling a point of view
rather than facts.

The changes made in the VB language were by specific decision to "clean up"
the language rather than any requirement of the platform change. The one
exception to that was the loss of Deterministic Finalization.

OO and structure changes could easily have been added without breaking
existing language features.

I'm not making that up. That comes from MS.

Dan


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