"Peter" <pe****@mail.net> wrote in message
news:Vg*******************@news20.bellglobal.com.. .
I really can't understand why you still use it or why you started
using it in the first place.
Given the thousands of commercial VB applicationsdeveloped since 1992,
and in use as you read this, it should not be hard to understand why
programmers started using it in the first place.
Given those same thousands of commercial VB applications in use as you
read this, ask one of those "Intelligent IT'ers" as you call them,
whether it is financially feasible to convert all of those programs to
..Net, and who is going to pay for it. Also ask whether they will all
work on the Win 95 machines that are often still running out in the
plants and shops where no one needs or gets the "good" computers.
The fact is that the installed base of VB applications is substantial
(larger than the installed base of .Net applications, for instance).
Over time, some of those applications will be converted, and some will
become obsolete, and new ones will be created in .Net. However many of
them will continue to run, and continue to require periodic maintenance
and enhancement. And as long as that is true, there will be programmers
who still use VB.
