[Info-vax] Programming languages on VMS

[DaveFroble]

Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> 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.

What would one do then?  If it's a choice between the VB6 task, or something 
worse?  Just close the doors?

Waking up in the morning is a risk.

Crossing the street is a risk.

The world is full of risks.

It's my thinking that describing something as a risk is sort of like FUD.  If I 
have something that works, does the job, then I use it.

I spent an afternoon looking at VB.net.  Either it was so different that I just 
didn't "get it", or, perhaps I just didn't want to "get it".

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