[Info-vax] Micro Focus to be acquired by Open Text

[Single Stage to Orbit]

On Sun, 2022-09-04 at 14:54 -0400, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> On 9/4/2022 1:29 PM, Single Stage to Orbit wrote:
> > On Sun, 2022-09-04 at 13:07 +0200, Johnny Billquist wrote:
> > > > The $ is of course used in system and library calls
> > > 
> > > Even when you have fancy BASICs that have explicit variable
> > > declarations, and ignoring system and library calls, you still
> > > have
> > > all the string functions in BASIC which include $.
> > > 
> > > LEFT$, RIGHT$, MID$, STR$, SPACE$, STRING$, NUM$... The list goes
> > > on
> > > and on...
> > 
> > Latest VB.Net still has these, sans the '$' symbols.
> 
> It seems to have with $ as well.

I hadn't realised it still supported the $ functions, I thought they
had been left behind with the demise of VB6. I absolutely hated VB6. 
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