Re: Advice Needed...

Maybe one day you'll get the fact that the incompatibility is due to the
improvements.

Not exactly. After all, they've worked around some of the previous problems
in VB 2005.

I also read recently that somebody started delving into the pseudo-code
VB.NET generates and discovered that there was absolutely no reason for most
of the limitations imposed in VB.NET. According to him, the programmers of
VB.NET were C programmers, and simply had no appreciation for the language
and what was important to developers and what wasn't. It's only as users
have complained that MS has become aware of what some classic VB'ers
consider to be critical issues.

That was his story, anyway. I don't know how much of it was fact and how
much conjecture, but it certainly sounded like a plausible explanation of
why VB7 changed so much from VB6, and why some consider it to be basically
C# with different keywords.

My take on it is that incompatibility is NEVER an improvement. An
improvement that causes incompatibility is dubious at best, poor programming
or a failure to understand the language at worst.



Rob


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