to *really* get that all into VB will be no mean feat - ie it still won't be
*mature* - Delphi 6 will be here by then and, judging from some of the
discussion at the conference, Delphi will be doing an even better job of
some of the stuff MS is still promising for COM+ let alone VB.
Max
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On
Behalf Of Grant Black
Sent: Thursday, 17 February 2000 16:37
To: Multiple recipients of list delphi
Subject: RE: [DUG]: VB 7 (change of subject)
> Apparently the next version (sometime in 2001) will change all that:
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/nextgen/language.asp
>
> - Inheritance
> - Encapsulation
> - Overloading
> - Polymorphism
> - Parameterized Constructors
>
> Apparently "Using object oriented programming languages helps make
> large-scale systems easier to understand, simpler to debug,
> and faster to
> update" and these features are required "to create robust, scalable
> distributed Web applications"
I was amused when I read about VB7 in the Register.
Its probably just a vapourware announcement to slow the tide of VB
'programmers' (I use the term with reluctance), moving to grown up languages
like Java/Delphi etc, but I just about choked on MS telling us that
a) OO is a *good thing* and
b) VB does not have it at the moment.
I have had 'discussions' before with clueless MS drones pushing the official
MS line that VB is OO (aggregation of COM objects!) and that all that other
OO 'stuff' was not really needed anyway. :-(
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