Pls explain my query
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Thanks for taking the time to research this before answering! 1) If by obsolete, you mean it has been supplanted by a new product dreamed up by MS marketing then I agree with you. If, by obsolete, you mean that (as the dictionary says) VB6 is "no longer in use or no longer useful" then I disagree. Not only are there plenty of job postings looking for VB6 developers, but VB6 still compiles code that runs on todays computers. Amazing, truly amazing..... 2) I'll have to take your word that Visual Basic contains none of the features or characteristics that define programming languages 3) I never said CP was run by Microsoft. I said that MS disincentivized websites that failed to adopt their newest marketing creations. I understand that this has been shown wrong - witnessed by your response to my post for surely you wouldn't waste my time talking out of your ass without first contacting someone at MS to disprove what I said. How many projects today are started in VB6? I have no idea. But I am sure you do or you wouldn't be stadning there at the microphone orating like some latter day Daniel Webster wannabe.
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- Thanks for that nit pick. You can still write code in assembler that will run on todays PC's, does that make this a viable way to develop a commercial product ? 2) You just do that. 3) How does Microsoft provide disincentives to CP, pray tell ? Are you claiming that Microsoft send death threats to Chris, or withdraw advertising support if a site with thousands of articles runs one on VB6 ? Terry O`Nolley wrote: How many projects today are started in VB6? Probably a ton, some because people don't want to evolve, some because they don't know any thing else and their target market doesn't have the .NET runtime, some in order to reuse existing code. However, I don't see why anyone who didn't have one of the barriers I just mentioned would choose it. This started because someone was surprised that CP no longer accepts VB6 articles. That fact alone would suggest to me that the people who run this site generally agree with my point of view regarding VB6. Or we can run with your conspiracy theory, suits me either way. Christian I have drunk the cool-aid and found it wan and bitter. - Chris Maunder
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- Thanks for that nit pick. You can still write code in assembler that will run on todays PC's, does that make this a viable way to develop a commercial product ? 2) You just do that. 3) How does Microsoft provide disincentives to CP, pray tell ? Are you claiming that Microsoft send death threats to Chris, or withdraw advertising support if a site with thousands of articles runs one on VB6 ? Terry O`Nolley wrote: How many projects today are started in VB6? Probably a ton, some because people don't want to evolve, some because they don't know any thing else and their target market doesn't have the .NET runtime, some in order to reuse existing code. However, I don't see why anyone who didn't have one of the barriers I just mentioned would choose it. This started because someone was surprised that CP no longer accepts VB6 articles. That fact alone would suggest to me that the people who run this site generally agree with my point of view regarding VB6. Or we can run with your conspiracy theory, suits me either way. Christian I have drunk the cool-aid and found it wan and bitter. - Chris Maunder
Christian Graus wrote: 1) Thanks for that nit pick You are welcome. I didn't want you to look bad by saying something so silly and I wanted to give the chance to recant. Christian Graus wrote: 2) You just do that. A programming language is a standardized set of tokens which can be compiled or interpreted in order to send instructions to a CPU to accomplish a specific task. I still don't see how VB6 fails to do that. Christian Graus wrote: 3) How does Microsoft provide disincentives to CP, pray tell ? I don't know that they do. I just said that they disincentivize in general. They would have to be marketing idiots to not do so. Every other successfull company knows to do this. It is a very basic marketing tactic. My question is how do you know they don't? What makes you think that MS has made the conscious decision to not engage in this common marketing tactic?
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Christian Graus wrote: 1) Thanks for that nit pick You are welcome. I didn't want you to look bad by saying something so silly and I wanted to give the chance to recant. Christian Graus wrote: 2) You just do that. A programming language is a standardized set of tokens which can be compiled or interpreted in order to send instructions to a CPU to accomplish a specific task. I still don't see how VB6 fails to do that. Christian Graus wrote: 3) How does Microsoft provide disincentives to CP, pray tell ? I don't know that they do. I just said that they disincentivize in general. They would have to be marketing idiots to not do so. Every other successfull company knows to do this. It is a very basic marketing tactic. My question is how do you know they don't? What makes you think that MS has made the conscious decision to not engage in this common marketing tactic?
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Terry O`Nolley wrote: I didn't want you to look bad by saying something so silly and I wanted to give the chance to recant. LOL - I've been told to recant in a religious forum before, but never in a programming one. Terry O`Nolley wrote: I still don't see how VB6 fails to do that. I'd have thought you'd be the first one able to recognise rhetoric around here. VB6 is a programming language in the same way that Baywatch Nights was a TV program, by the skin of it's teeth and the narrowest of definitions. Terry O`Nolley wrote: I don't know that they do. I just said that they disincentivize in general. Ah, so you're making it up as you go along ? Excellent. Terry O`Nolley wrote: They would have to be marketing idiots to not do so. Every other successfull company knows to do this. It is a very basic marketing tactic. Sure - if I make cars, it's in my interest not to sell too many parts for my old models, because I want people to need a new car. Microsoft almost certainly no longer sell VB6, or promote it. However, I don't see car manufacturers as either likely or even able to stop a second hand car yard from selling used cars, any more than Microsoft is likely to try and bully this site into not supporting VB6. Had such bullying occured successfully, you'd think that old VB6 articles would also be pulled. Terry O`Nolley wrote: My question is how do you know they don't? What makes you think that MS has made the conscious decision to not engage in this common marketing tactic? Unless you can explain a meangingful way in which Microsoft could stop Code Project from running VB6 articles, despite their desire to do so, this conversation is dumb. I don't see any way they can do this legally, and it makes far more sense to me that they simply decided to stop supporting an outdated product. The site is getting to a point where the number of articles makes it hard to search for things at times, and there will be more people looking for VB.NET articles who won't want VB6 stuff coming up in their searches. Christian I have drunk the cool-aid and found it wan and bitter. - Chris Maunder