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Offline Kosh

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Why did they mangle VB?
on: November 05, 2008, 02:17:02 am
I've been wondering for a while, why did MS take VB 6.0 and twist and mangle it into VB .net?
"The reason for this is that the original Fortran got so convoluted and extensive (10's of millions of lines of code) that no-one can actually figure out how it works, there's a massive project going on to decode the original Fortran and write a more modern system, but until then, the UK communication network is actually relying heavily on 35 year old Fortran that nobody understands." - Flipside

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Offline blackhole

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Re: Why did they mangle VB?
Reply #1 on: November 05, 2008, 02:21:57 am
Because MS fixes everything that isn't broken.
 

Offline Spicious

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Re: Why did they mangle VB?
Reply #2 on: November 05, 2008, 02:22:29 am
Why would you use VB anyway?
 

Offline portej05

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Re: Why did they mangle VB?
Reply #3 on: November 05, 2008, 06:43:24 am
I think the answer lies partly in that they only wanted to have to work with one runtime (the CLR?). AFAIK VB and C# and all the .NET languages compile into MSIL which is then run on a virtual machine (I haven't actually used any managed languages, just C++ and FORTRAN here, so guessing!). Which is why they end up with the language like it is. Or I'm totally off the track somewhere. I did at one point have some VB6 code... but it stopped working when VB.NET came along  :(
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Offline Kosh

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Re: Why did they mangle VB?
Reply #4 on: November 07, 2008, 07:15:15 am
Quote from: Spicious on November 05, 2008, 02:22:29 am
Why would you use VB anyway?

It was my first programming language. It still has some advantages in that you can quickly build various applications with it. VB6 was great for the kind of work VB was intended to do, there really was no reason to change it. Hate to see if fade into the land of deprecation........
"The reason for this is that the original Fortran got so convoluted and extensive (10's of millions of lines of code) that no-one can actually figure out how it works, there's a massive project going on to decode the original Fortran and write a more modern system, but until then, the UK communication network is actually relying heavily on 35 year old Fortran that nobody understands." - Flipside

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Offline phatosealpha

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Re: Why did they mangle VB?
Reply #5 on: November 30, 2008, 12:30:14 am
Out of curiousity, what exactly are these quick applications that you can't do with vb.net?
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