Mark Breen
marklbreen at gmail.com
Thu Mar 10 04:13:18 CST 2005
Hello Shamil, Is VB6/VBA worth keeping? Is there something that is more special about it that deserves to retain it than lets say, word version 2 or other technologies that have been retired in the past. Is it not the case that for financial reasons, MS push us all the time to the limit of our abilities to keep up with the code that they produce. But at the same time, they drag us kicking and screaming along the technology trail? I am aware that the migration from Com to .Net / managed environment is a big change for the world to make, but by MS forcing our hands, we all have to move on. If they do not reduce and finally stop supporting com, then natural inertia will allow the status quo to continue. Sure, for the person that is currently lightning fast at developing vb6 apps, that suits them, but is it progress to let the existing situation remain as is? Now I know that we could argue that if we remain in the com environment, we can focus our energies on User Interface Design and other ergonomic issues, also we can focus on addressing, more accurately, the business requirements. Whereas if we all have to learn .Net, we will spend the next two years trying to figure out how to populate a list box etc. But my suspicion is that the individual programmer or development department will continue to place the same priority on those non-technical issues as they have in the past, in other words, blaming the learning curve of new technology is not the real culprit in bad software. In my opinion, ideology - or lack of a good one - is. So, to summarise, given my limited knowledge of the differences and benefits of the managed vs un managed environments, and my lack of awareness of any huge benefits of remaining with the un-managed environment, I would be more in favour of 'bring it on MS", sure we will burn the midnight oil again for the 10th time in fifteen years, sure we will struggle and buy more books, and say "once I over come this new hump in my lack of knowledge, I will be flying" sure we did it with dos, windows, Access 2, Access 97, VB, SQL, Dot Net, the internet etc etc, but that is what we signed up for in our vocation, I think that it is the nature of the it industry, I do not expect it to ever be easy, now or in twenty years time. It I wanted a static industry I could have chosen carpentry, it is around a while. I have one exception to all these thoughts, if you have any information that I am unaware of regarding benefits of the old platform, tell me / us and with that I reserve the right to change my mind to an extent. Thanks for the FYI though Oh, and do you think that it has even a one percent chance of succeeding? I hope that you are well, and I hope that my comments come across as friendly, but not sharp. Mark Breen Ireland On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 11:44:06 +0300, Shamil Salakhetdinov <shamil at users.mns.ru> wrote: > FYI: http://classicvb.org/petition/ > > Shamil > > _______________________________________________ > dba-Tech mailing list > dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com >