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

[Dave Froble]

On 9/4/2022 5:18 PM, Single Stage to Orbit wrote:
> 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.
>

With my experience in VAX Basic et;al, I was able to use VB6.  I still haven't 
figured out VB.net.  Haven't tried too hard either.

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