Hi Liam, No change isn't always bad, and in this case I feel it was about to happen sooner or later. As I understand it from what I have heard from Microsoft on the subject was that many VB programmers in the field bombarded MS with requests to update the language and include more features present in more powerful languages such as C++ and Java. These days it is unreasonable to not have a good oop design present in a programming language. Especially, seeing as all the really popular languages like C++, Java, Python, etc have a good oop design and are more popular than non-oop languages. Strictly speaking from my personal opinion and experiences when I was a student in college they started us out on VB 5. Oh, I was happy as a clam to be able to write something constructive, Mr. Programmer, and all. However, as time went on I got in to more complex languages like C++ and Java, and with them came more complex advanced concepts, new design conventions, and so on. Once I learned, grasped, and understood the advantages of what C++ and Java had to offer VB 5 seamed like a joke, or a toy language for kids. I mean I was really impressed with a simple subject like class inheritence. How you could start out with a master class let's say starship, put all your major variables and functions in there, and then begin branching out, and create more and more specialised classes which inherit the more generalised classes. With the creation of one instance of an object you have access to not only the specialised class you have access to variables and functions to everything that specialised class was derived from. Even cooler you wrote the variables and functions once, but everytime you create an instance of an object which points to that class those variables are duplicated in memory for the specific use of that object without having to write them over again for that item, object, character, you are storing data for. I guess to sum it up I learned oop design, and I couldn't live without it. I found languages without oop design to be backward, outdated, and really the hard way of doing things. Liam Erven wrote: > Jim. It's much much different. There's many major differences than in vb6. > I was surprised to find out you could program in vb6 like you would in an > older form of basic, but the whole system is much much different now. > Change isn't always bad. I'm really enjoying this new version quite a lot. >
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