July 25, 2005 - 1:30 A.M.
VB 6 Rides Again!! (well, not really)
- IT TOPICS:Applications, Development, Security
Andrew Orlowski has a funny article about the sort-of return of Visual Basic 6.
It seems that Microsoft has desupported VB 6 -- yet is using its runtime in a recently acquired anti-spyware technology. The article begins (emphasis mine):
Heck, if a movie that's in Aramaic can top the box-office charts, there must be hope for dead languages everywhere.
And for one in particular, which still has millions of adherents. Released in 1996, Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 cemented the product as the first choice of buggy front-ends to databases everywhere. In fact, if you wanted a buggy front-end to your corporate database, there was no better choice.
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