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

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 9/4/2022 6:56 PM, Dave Froble wrote:
> 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:
>>>>> 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.

The GUI part of VB6 is very different, but the language
itself is still very BASICish.

VB.NET language is way more different.

Some say that VB.NET is not Basic at all but C# with Basic keywords.

:-)

But the OOP, Generics and FP features make it very
far from traditional Basic.

Arne