[Info-vax] Programming languages on VMS

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 1/29/2018 11:20 AM, DaveFroble wrote:
> Jan-Erik Soderholm wrote:
>> Den 2018-01-29 kl. 00:49, skrev DaveFroble:
>>> If someone does desire such a move, they are going to pay, dearly.  I 
>>> had a customer that for some reason wanted to move away from VMS, and 
>>> to weendoze. Note that this was to most reliable system they had.  I 
>>> gave them a quote which I figured would put a stop to such ideas. 
>>> They're desire was so strong that they came up with the money.  And 
>>> so I totally re-wrote the software using VB6. Any sort of port was 
>>> nonsense.  I of course used the original for reference. And I cashed 
>>> the check.
>>
>> And what happened to the VB6 app? Still in use? The maintenance situation
>> for VB6 is quite bad today...

> Not sure what you mean by "maintenance situation".  VB6 still does today 
> what it did in the past.  Out of support from Microsoft, as far as I 
> know.  I haven't been able to install it on a weendoze 7 system, or 
> later.  I have seen information on how to do so.

Replaced by VB.NET in 2002.

End of mainstream support 2005.

End of extended support 2008.

So 10 years without support.

Obviously it does not stop working by magic.

But if things break for whatever reason then users of it have a problem.

I would consider it a risk to have a business critical application
depend on it.

Arne