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The ANZAC18-Oct-07 2:09
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lies..only those who are resistant to change, fearful of progression, or afraid of learning new, more powerful and overall superior concepts seem to think in this non-progressive backward ideal.

If your gonna try and start a counter-culture, i think you have little hope. Most people in these forums started with vb6...yet have made the transition to a better product. Microsoft does upgrade its software for more than profit. It upgrades its frameworks and developement tools because developement exists in such a way that old tools eventually become too old to be adapted to new tasks. You can't drive in a screw in with a stone tool (and please don't get pedantic and extend this analogy). Hence, progression is a necessary thing. It is as natural as evolution. It is those who refuse to "convert", as you so resistantly phrased it, that hold back the industry and wonder why they no longer understand who to provide solutions they understood how to a few years back, yet the syntax is still derived from the same language.

Besides that, VB6 was a mess, thrown together out of bits of other languages, held together by toothpicks, strin and blue tack which we know as the VB6 syntax. VB.Net is much more adept at handling so many more things than VB6...sure some things may seem foreign and more complex, but it is this complexity that allows expansion.

It is equivocal to C# in its power and, some would argue, easier to use, especially for readability and new users. Do yourself a favour and make the move, you won't regret it. Do the industry a favour and stop trying to create a counter-culture. No-one gains anything through anti-progressionism.

Polyphonic wrote:
We are offended when it is sugested that VB6 users should be "brought into the fold of VB.NET".


Sorry if you get offended, but most people on this side of the metaphoric line don't know why they stuck with VB6 for so long.

Polyphonic wrote:
There is still a lot of life left in VB6


Is that why microsoft doesn't support it anymore?

Polyphonic wrote:
Just don't throw away any tools just because you aren't familiar with them


This is an invalid argument, why would you own tools you aren't familiar with.

Polyphonic wrote:
Other platforms are not as fast to 'throw togeather' a quick proof of concept demo in order to get initial funding


Disagree. Once you gain a better understanding of VB.Net, i belive you can 'throw' something together in the same time and include more features.

Despite all this, this really isn't the place to have this argument, there is a suggestions forum, pitch it there, but i guarantee that if there is a seperate forum, it will only be one tenth as populated as this one. But VB.Net programmers would be glad to stop hearing about VB6 questions.

Sorry if some of this comes across aggressive, i really don't mean it, i'm adamently pro VB.Net and am willing to admit that there is inherent bias in this.

Please check out my articles:
The ANZAC's articles

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