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Wasn't there a big brouhaha over the change from VB6 to VB.Net? The big difference there is that if it's ordained from your corporate overlords, you have little

by mhd 9y ago

Wasn't there a big brouhaha over the change from VB6 to VB.Net? The big difference there is that if it's ordained from your corporate overlords, you have little choice, whereas you feel like you've got a bigger right to complain when it's "just" coming from the BDFL.

umanwizard 9y ago
VB.NET is a totally new language almost unrelated to VB6. That’s like talking about C vs C++, not py2 vs py3.
- toyg 9y ago
  Calling it a “New language” flatters Vb.net. In reality, it was a “marketing compatibility shim” on top of C# to help VB developers acclimatise to the CLR.
michaelt 9y ago
As VB6 is compiled, you don't need your users to have a particular interpreter version installed.
- ajdlinux 9y ago
  I do remember the good old days of having to make sure you had MSVBVM50.DLL or MSVBVM60.DLL in the right place...
  - pjmlp 9y ago
    It is no different than ensuring you have the right libc.so in place.