Jinn Wins wrote:
>
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> I've looked at .NET a bit. What they did with VB, point by point,
> I agree with, but decided to not bother porting since there are too many
> differences.

The problem is that VB.NET doesn't appear to 'break' old, bad VB code.

I used to work with a group of people who supported an old, crusty VB
app. It had been 'rescued' from one of the old MS Basic systems that
supported GOTOs, global variables and spaghetti code. The app had grown
and grown over the years and nobody could figure out how the damned
thing worked. Nobody dared touch it anymore.

About a year or so ago, they moved the source into VB.NET. Guess what?
It still works.

> They invented VB quite early, and it was bad for a long time.

What do you mean 'was'? It still supports spaghetti code.

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