Re: Overflowing a Long

"Michael C" <nospam@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Perhaps they should have left the word Basic out of Visual
Basic 1.0 as well. Maybe they could have called it Visual
DooDad or something like that because it really isn't Basic
but a completely different language that I had to learn and
master. ;-)

Well said. Pity mike missed the whole thing and just repeated his rant.

You're quite wrong. Visual Basic 6 and below *are* essentially the same as
the old versions of BASIC. The only difference is that Visual Basic is
essentially event driven whereas the old versions of BASIC were sequential.
But the old BASIC sequential code will still run in Visual Basic (VB6 and
below), and it will still run in its old sequential mode if you wish,
including line numbers and GoSubs and Returns and almost everything else. In
many cases (although not in all cases of course) you can just "copy and
paste" an entire old fashioned BASIC program (line numbers and Gosub and
all) into a VB6 Command Button click event and click the button and it will
run. There are a few things you will need to alter, particularly when
dealing with keyboard input, but not many. You can't do that, or anything
like it, in Visual FredNet (or whatever they are calling it now). In Visual
FredNet not even a simple Print "Hello World" will work without
modification! VB6 is as much like the old fashioned BASIC as you can get for
a language that is event driven. If you personally looked on it as something
completely new that you had to learn and master from scratch, as you have
suggested, then perhaps you . . . (to be continued)!

Mike



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