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I mean that they are not actually Visual Basic. The last version of Visual Basic was v6.
VB.NET (and VB 2005, which is just the most recent version of VB.NET) is a completely new, different language which was saddled with strong syntactic similarities to Visual Basic in the optimistic hope that VB programmers woud be fooled into thinking it was actually VB. Which it isn't.
That's not to say it isn't a good language. It is. It just isn't VB.
VB.NET (and VB 2005, which is just the most recent version of VB.NET) is a completely new, different language which was saddled with strong syntactic similarities to Visual Basic in the optimistic hope that VB programmers woud be fooled into thinking it was actually VB. Which it isn't.
That's not to say it isn't a good language. It is. It just isn't VB.
<in the optimistic hope that VB programmers woud be fooled into thinking it was actually VB. Which it isn't.
Or to put that in Microsoft evangelspeak: "with the idea that VB programmers will be able to leverage the syntactical similarity with VB6 to reduce the .Net learning curve." Which they probably can't.
Or to put that in Microsoft evangelspeak: "with the idea that VB programmers will be able to leverage the syntactical similarity with VB6 to reduce the .Net learning curve." Which they probably can't.
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It's funny in a way.
I still see a few die-hard QBasic/QuickBasic programmers who reject VB5&6 to this day because "It's too object oriented and I just don't get it." Of course they're the first to admit they just plink around with programming on a lightweight recreational level.
I still see a few die-hard QBasic/QuickBasic programmers who reject VB5&6 to this day because "It's too object oriented and I just don't get it." Of course they're the first to admit they just plink around with programming on a lightweight recreational level.
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