Re: Turbo Basic Explorer
"Craig Stuntz [TeamB]" wrote:
It's a straw man argument. "People," AFAICS, argue that Delphi might
be attractive to VB6 developers not because migration to VB.NET is
"hard," but because Microsoft cannot be trusted to break the language
definition yet again in the future, as they have done in the past. The
problem with VB.NET isn't just that effort -- a substantial or total
rewrite -- is required to move VB6 code, but that having spent that
effort it is not clear that it won't be required when the "next" flavor
is required.
While that is an extremely powerful argument, it apparently hasn't been
compelling judging by the number (admittedly speculative) of VB6ers that
have come over to Delphi.
With Delphi there is historical evidence that Borland goes to lengths
to avoid breaking old code.
There are those who have made the argument that for Microsoft to have
transitioned VB6 to VB.NET without breaking much of the language would have
been a case of visiting the sins of the father on the child. And yes, I know
the counter argument effectively made by Dan Barclay.
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(microsoft.public.vb.general.discussion) - Re: Delphi? Futureproof re vb!
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(microsoft.public.vb.general.discussion) - Re: Turbo Basic Explorer
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... I've read the petition and I can't ... Microsoft can satisfy the "issues" in the petition (which pretty much boil ... Nothing but adding unmanaged VB6 into the VS.NET IDE ... COM interop support, a poor code conversion wizard, the ending of mainstream ...
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