Please save us from "professional" developers

Sometimes I feel like us "Morts" live in some kind of parallel universe.<sigh>

Julie's comment to my previous post, saying that Ken Getz "also said that this was the reason there was a form load event-- for the VB6 programmers who, someone at MS thought, just wouldn't be able to deal with it's disappearance".

I know it's hard for all those Candidesque C# developers - who, by definition, do not have any legacy applications - to understand, but there are literally millions of VB programs out there today. More programs than all these C# coders are going to write for perhaps the next 10 to 20 years. And, gee, I know it's not a perfect solution, but wouldn't it be nice if these programs could be updated/upgraded/migrated to .NET without having to be re-engineered?

Isn't it bad enough that us "Morts", who have written all the code that corporate America actually uses, have had a completely new UI object model foisted on us? One that bears a striking similarity to the one in (gasp) the object model used in VJ++? Do we really have to endure the snearing and inuendo of these so-called "professional" programmers? Perhaps we should just update a few "legacy" payroll apps and delete these guys. <vbg>

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  • But Keith, I'm a VB programmer too. I wasn't trying to be snotty. You made a good point, which is that I haven't ported or migrated any of my &quot;legacy&quot; (oh, that word pains me) VB6 code. I am maintaining those apps in VB6 and starting all of the new stuff from scratch in .NET. It's just that I don't mind having someone say - &quot;ok formload goes over here now.&quot; I know the many options are supposed to make it easier, but you don't understand. I'm a Libra. Options confuse me. I will spend a week debating with myself which one to pick. Please please don't delete me. &lt;g&gt;

  • Can't keep a Good Meme down! :-)





    It is really a shame that Microsoft decided to orphan those billions of lines of Classic VB code. Had they been portable to the new platform, it would've taken off like gangbusters, and we wouldn't be hearing the low rumble of &quot;abysmal adoption&quot; as this bet-the-company experiment fizzles.





    Business students will study the debacle of devaluing customer assets on this scale for years to come.





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