Lack of VB 6 Discussion
-
Dead as COBOL or FORTRAN, it is an ossified language no longer supported. You may as well talk about ALGOL or PASCAL. Pull its mummified corpse from your mind and move on.
--------------------------------- Obscurum per obscurius. Ad astra per alas porci. Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur. CCC Link[^] Can you Help?
-
Do you want to see some live COBOL? just come to us. Oh, I think it's in the so called "forbidden city", very special room. (See response to DDs post above)
The signature is in building process.. Please wait...
-
Are you talking about one of those shielded rooms built by Siemens (and others I assume)? Soren Madsen
"When you don't know what you're doing it's best to do it quickly" - Jase #DuckDynasty
-
COBOL is not completely dead. I can attest that because if I look over my PC monitor I can see tons of people writing COBOL code. It has been a quite good working area down here in Brazil...
-
Exactly, in our case it's official name is "the bunker". Remember WW2?
The signature is in building process.. Please wait...
I have worked for two companies that had those babies installed. They are always a source of pain when the company grows and has to move to a bigger building. Soren Madsen
"When you don't know what you're doing it's best to do it quickly" - Jase #DuckDynasty
-
I want to discuss about VB 6 But that forum is not available. In Visual Basic Forum there are many VB .NET Discuss. How can I ask for VB 6?
-
Wov! Brazil! Hot country right now! Confederation cup and riots every night. Did it calm down a little bit? (sorry for the change of subject).
The signature is in building process.. Please wait...
-
No worries :-) yeah it is a little bit calmer. Now the government and "associated crew" are trying to fix things up because they finally realized we were fed up. Honestly I never thought I would see such thing in my lifetime...
-
I have worked for two companies that had those babies installed. They are always a source of pain when the company grows and has to move to a bigger building. Soren Madsen
"When you don't know what you're doing it's best to do it quickly" - Jase #DuckDynasty
Well, we have actually two rooms like that. One in the IT production site (10 kilometers from here, the development site, all basically on Virtual Machines) and one in the Main Building Down Town as backup. It's a medium sized private swiss bank and better to have backup of data (in case it gets stolen..)
The signature is in building process.. Please wait...
-
COBOL is not completely dead. I can attest that because if I look over my PC monitor I can see tons of people writing COBOL code. It has been a quite good working area down here in Brazil...
no its actualy dead, what you see there is coma COBOL, the code that refuses to die, kept on life support by sacrifying developers to its minimal life signs
You cant outrun the world, but there is no harm in getting a head start Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.
-
no its actualy dead, what you see there is coma COBOL, the code that refuses to die, kept on life support by sacrifying developers to its minimal life signs
You cant outrun the world, but there is no harm in getting a head start Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.
It would be great if the bank corps here could upgrade their old systems, but they seem quite happy with this ancient environment. As a C/C++ programmer, it does not make me any good that they keep wrapping old systems using .NET and Java components. COBOL is being taught here at Universities again. My brother in law works for a small company whose main product is a fiscal system/administrative system and the whole thing was written in COBOL with several emends to work with the real world. I would be glad if there was a huge change in business men's retrograde mentality here so that they could see that upgrading is worth its cost.
-
Hope for the best! And good luck for the football match tonight.
The signature is in building process.. Please wait...
Honestly, I lost in interest in our national team a long time ago ( 2002 ). I wish Netherlands had won the last world cup, not they were a great team, they have just been deserving to win since the 70s. On the other hand it is good to see Spain. I am cheering up for Uruguay tonight :)
-
We still have COBOL and FORTRAN and VB6 programs to maintain. It's sometimes more painfull then going to the dentist (like you and me).
The signature is in building process.. Please wait...
There are still (free) COBOL and FORTRAN compilers available. VB6 is no longer sold, and there are no "free" implementations. While COBOL may still be alive, VB6 is dead. Pushing up the daisies. Joined the choir invisible. An ex-language.
Bastard Programmer from Hell :suss: If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
-
Honestly, I lost in interest in our national team a long time ago ( 2002 ). I wish Netherlands had won the last world cup, not they were a great team, they have just been deserving to win since the 70s. On the other hand it is good to see Spain. I am cheering up for Uruguay tonight :)
Uruguay Spain would be a great final. Italy for me... (I'm living 10 kilometers from Italy, that's why nearly everybody here likes when Italy looses). Final is scheduled at midnight local time here un Sunday, doubt I see it. Tomorrow definitly Spain.
The signature is in building process.. Please wait...
-
Uruguay Spain would be a great final. Italy for me... (I'm living 10 kilometers from Italy, that's why nearly everybody here likes when Italy looses). Final is scheduled at midnight local time here un Sunday, doubt I see it. Tomorrow definitly Spain.
The signature is in building process.. Please wait...
-
It would be great if the bank corps here could upgrade their old systems, but they seem quite happy with this ancient environment. As a C/C++ programmer, it does not make me any good that they keep wrapping old systems using .NET and Java components. COBOL is being taught here at Universities again. My brother in law works for a small company whose main product is a fiscal system/administrative system and the whole thing was written in COBOL with several emends to work with the real world. I would be glad if there was a huge change in business men's retrograde mentality here so that they could see that upgrading is worth its cost.
not likely to happen, COBOL's bloated corpse will be floating around for decades and no big business will invest a small fortune (or large in the case of some systems) in burying it, when the beinits are so small, Its cheaper to throw the lives and careers of young developers at it.
You cant outrun the world, but there is no harm in getting a head start Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.
-
You can try the Visual Basic forum, but TBH most people will advice you to either migrate to VB.Net or just sell your soul to Satan; the rest will see no difference between the two choices.
Reality is an illusion caused by a lack of alcohol "Nagy, you have won the internets." - Keith Barrow
-
I want to discuss about VB 6 But that forum is not available. In Visual Basic Forum there are many VB .NET Discuss. How can I ask for VB 6?
Q&A is the best bet. Prepare to be baffled by the tag cloud, however. Once you manage to find the "VB6" and queue it up you might accidently highlight it, and suddenly become amazed to find out it is the sole breadcrumb in a list of one breadcrumb. And also be prepared to show code. Not for the squeamish coder, then.
-
You can try the Visual Basic forum, but TBH most people will advice you to either migrate to VB.Net or just sell your soul to Satan; the rest will see no difference between the two choices.
Reality is an illusion caused by a lack of alcohol "Nagy, you have won the internets." - Keith Barrow
-
You can try the Visual Basic forum, but TBH most people will advice you to either migrate to VB.Net or just sell your soul to Satan; the rest will see no difference between the two choices.
Reality is an illusion caused by a lack of alcohol "Nagy, you have won the internets." - Keith Barrow
If I can, I will migrate. But I can't because of compability. If my target program is for Windows XP sp 2 or less, I can't use VB.NET or anything with .NET. In your country may be plenty person using Windows Vista and above, but my country not! Also, I am very mad if you say I sell my soul to Satan! If you want, just become satan!