Re: Overflowing a Long

I'm not talking about the language in general (which I think is fairly
elegant overall), I'm talking about the file handling in particular. For
example, in what way is

Open "C:\test.dat" For Random Access Read Write Lock Read Write As #1
Len=512

in ANY way elegant? While that's certainly the worst of them, the Print #,
Get # and similar statements aren't exactly tidy in some of their
permutations either. Object-orientation would have gone a long way to
solving this inelegance, but I guess we're any number of years too late for
that at this point. :)


Rob

"Karl E. Peterson" <karl@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Robert Morley <rmorley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Sorry Bob, but I gotta go with him on that one too. I really do like
VB6,
but file handling is not its strength, either in terms of raw power (I
don't
see SQL Server being written in VB) or in terms of programming elegance
either.

It's both simple *and* elegant. If it weren't, MSBasic wouldn't be the
language that outpaced COBOL for most lines of code written. Ever.
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