Andy & Robert,
Further to my earlier comments on the relative
portability/suitability of languages:
In following one of John-O's links on opinions
re MS and its current adventures, I landed on
the following page:
http://www.mvps.org/vb/index2.html?rants/vfred.htm
and found myself staring wide-eyed at a LONG list
of NEW incompatibilities between Visual Basic 6.0
and the new .NET version of VB (which these people
refer to as "Visual Fred").
More than 100 serious, significant, fundamental
features are being changed, discarded, or simply
"not supported" in the new VB (for .NET).
In my earlier remarks, I stated:
> I'm not an advocate of VB, but it's the one language
> that MS supports unreservedly. They make *everything*
> they do work with it. A person committed to the MS
> Windows platform would do well to become acquainted
> with VB.
and I must now reconsider my own words.
VB is not anything like an open standard. There is no
"standards committee" for VB. It is entirely the domain
of MS. There are no guarantees that MS will support any
given feature of a language they completely own from one
version to the next, and with this new list of arbitrary
changes to what has been until now a de facto "standard"
it is clear their design goals are not necessarily tied
to what's best for the developer.
My earlier remarks may still be true, for what that's
worth, but I'm beginning to have my doubts about VB as
a viable career path.
~~Garry
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