Re: Why the VB6 versus VB.NET contest is baloney

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On Dec 3, 2:26 pm, "Michael C" <nos...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
"dpb" <n...@xxxxxxx> wrote in messagenews:fj1qp9$ujh$1@xxxxxxxxxxx
The conclusion of this is that whatever development environment/language
you select, imo it should be a language that has a recognized Standard and
has compilers from more than one vendor. You then have a core language
with possible vendor-specific and/or OS-specific extensions, but you're
not tied into a single vendor with no real recourse.

Great idea but is that possible for a high level language?

Michael

C#, the CTS, and the core of the .NET framework are ISO standards.
There are currently 3 C# compilers - Microsoft's C# compiler, Novell's
Mono compiler, and the dotGNU compiler. The Mono project also has a
VB.NET compiler as well.

So, yes it's possible.

--
Tom Shelton
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