Will Visual Basic. NET take over VB 6?

What's your opinions on this matter?
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How much VB3 development do you suppose is still going on?

Yes, eventually.

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I'm not sure there's any room for 'opinions' on this. Sooner or later, you'll have no choice. As with every other product, at some point (although probably 2 or 3 years from now at least), VB6 support will be discontinued.

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Everybody has their opinion, but one thing is certain - taking some time to learn it, or learn what it is about, will benefit you when the move to it becomes obligatory.

Start now, early, and you'll have an advantage.

most of all these changes will come with the new programmers that come out of college with all the newest technologies, then the olders ones start to refresh there knowledge and then the old languages start to die... that's the way i see it

No one exactly predicts what would happen in the future. Based on the history, it usually takes long for people to grasp the change like the Industrial revolution. it took very long to understand the cultural impact of that technology.

In the same sense, we don't know the impact of VB.net on programming languages yet. The only sure thing is that something keeps changing. I think that is the nature of our society and life.

As a designer, we appreciate all programmers (they are awesome!!) The biggest issue in my field is how to incorporate the IT into the design process. Some designers don't like that new concept and they just stick to traditional design methods. I understand them. but personally, they will be less productive. Well, I might be wrong. :D

Although it seems highly unlikely, there is still the possibility that
the whole .net initiative will utterly fail. In its time of greatest
hype, who would have predicted the fall of Java?

Originally posted by Thinker
Although it seems highly unlikely, there is still the possibility that
the whole .net initiative will utterly fail. In its time of greatest
hype, who would have predicted the fall of Java?

Will Java fall? I hope not. :( I only knows Java and Visual Basic. :(

A LOT of good programmers predicted the fall of Java.

Will Java fall?Heheh, you're a bit late. Java hasn't been popular in quite a long time.

Originally posted by VolteFace
Heheh, you're a bit late. Java hasn't been popular in quite a long time.

Really? **Gulps*** I think I better start taking up lessons on other languages. I am only a student. But many still supports Java. Especially my lecturers. They seems to like to stress on the portablity of codes.

Anyway, i am a novice. Hence I cant comment much. :p

It doesn't matter what's popular, it's what it can do. VB.Net has no reason to take over VB 6 because it's completely different. It's not so much an upgrade as a completely new language. That's like saying "Will COBOL die?", and some people would argue that it's already dead. And while it's not used for many new programs at all, since so many old programs were written in it, many modifications, upgrades, and even similar programs use COBOL to immitate them.

Actually, I don't think it's fair to compare this to COBOL. If I'm not mistaken, COBOL can run on different platforms. As soon as Windows 9x dies, VB5/6 will die since it cannot develop for any other platform. (Yes, VB can develop for Win2K and XP, but .NET will rule those platforms in a few years, when they're already out of date.)

A language is pretty much useless if no one uses the platform that it develops for. Just as VB3 is pretty much dead since nobody uses 3.x anymore, VB 6 will die. I agree, it will take some time (a few years), but it will happen. That's why I'm learning as many languages as I can. (ASM, C++, etc).

Many programmers use VS, but you have to remember that not everyone does. Borland and Sun both have large audiences, not to mention other Unix compilers. There are lots of programmers that never use VS.

My point here is that, even though I'll eventually use VS.NET, it'll be a while. I'm happy using other compilers.

I don't get it. Why wil Java fall or Java has died or whatever. What is the main matter with Java?

It's slower than mollasses. It can't do anything that C++ can already do. It's useless.