PLEASE READ IF YOU PROGRAM: Help Continue Visual Basic

[Mike]

Hello Folks,

I first want to say sorry to posting the same message to so many forums but
we need your help preserve the Microsoft Visual Basic Language for it is a
valiable asset!!!!

If you do any VB programming you should know that currently the mainstream
support for VB6 ended on March 31, 2005. And if you do any VB coding please
help us and sign the petition that we are sending to Microsoft for
continuation of support!

Please sign the Petition to continue VB... (click below)
http://classicvb.org/petition/index.asp

This is only to help protect a language that has made life easy for a ton of
us!!!

Here is some additional info:

Will VB 9 Win Over the VB 6 Faithful?
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1869134,00.asp

VB: Past, Present, Future
http://www.bitwisemag.com/copy/featu...entfuture.html

Please help keep a language around that has been here since 1980. It can
make everyones like easier to deal with. Especially us old timers. (smile)
Mike

[Harlan Grove]

Mike wrote...
....
>If you do any VB programming you should know that currently the mainstream
>support for VB6 ended on March 31, 2005. And if you do any VB coding please
>help us and sign the petition that we are sending to Microsoft for
>continuation of support!
....
>Please help keep a language around that has been here since 1980. It can
>make everyones like easier to deal with. Especially us old timers. (smile)

First, don't make patently untrue statements in advocacy. The BASIC
that existed in 1980 is definitely NOT any version of VB, nor even
close to QBASIC. The old, mandatory line number BASIC deserved its
extinction. Visual Basic if you include its immediate predecessor Quick
Basic has only been around since the late 1980s.

Next, this is one of the pleasures of using proprietary languages: the
company that sells the language you've come to depend upon has the
unilateral ability to pull the rug out from under you. It's your own
fault for choosing a proprietary language.

You might want to consider whether it'd be easier to port to
PowerBASIC, RealBASIC or TrueBASIC. It's unlikely any of those BASIC
dialects would sacrifice backward compatibility.