Re: Overflowing a Long

"Michael C" <nospam@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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But some changes are needed from old basic to VB6. Not using
the old basic I wouldn't know but I suspect your under-exaggerating
the changes that would be required.

I'm not "under exaggerating", Michael. I have written BASIC programs for
almost thirty years and many of even my very earliest BASIC programs would
run with no problems whatsoever if I pasted them into a VB6 Button Click
event, for example. But not a single one of them would run in dotnet. Not
even the simplest of them. Not even most of the "one liners".

Maybe a greater number of changes are required for vb.net

A massive number of changes!

but it's still the same basic syntax

No it isn't, Michael. It is massively different.

At what point do you consider it a different language, is there a certain
percentage of code?

It's not something I've bothered to actually quantify. It's more of a "gut
feeling" thing, although you could certainly quantify it if you wished to do
so. As I said earlier, I've been programming for nearly thirty years
(machine code, Assembler, Fortran and BASIC) and when I picked up my first
copy of Visual Basic (which I didn't bother doing until VB5 came out,
because I was busy with other languages at the time) I was almost
immediately comfortable with it. It was BASIC, but with some extra bells and
whistles. There was of course a slight learning curve because of the event
driven nature of VB5 (which was new to me) but nevertheless I felt at home
almost straight away and I could convert even the oldest of my previous
BASIC programs to VB5 very quickly and with very few problems. Dotnet is not
like that. Not like that at all. As far as I am concerned, dotnet is not
BASIC at all. The only relationship dotnet has to the old BASIC is that the
Micro$oft sales team have persuaded the Micro$oft programmers to "graft onto
it" a large number of "Basic sounding constructs" in an attempt to persuade
people that it is something which it isn't! Their underhand ploy hasn't
worked for me, although I'm sure lots of people will be taken in by it, at
least until they have parted with their money.

Mike







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