From: bitshifter on
On Tue, 16 Feb 2010 08:00:53 -0600, DanS
<t.h.i.s.n.t.h.a.t(a)r.o.a.d.r.u.n.n.e.r.c.o.m> wrote:

>=?Utf-8?B?SmFrZSBUaGUgSGF3aw==?= <Jake The
>Hawk(a)discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
>news:EA24C5A0-E2E4-49A3-8A97-72B07DE73E26(a)microsoft.com:
>
>>
>> Why is this newsgroup still active? I thought Microsoft killed VB6 in
>> 2002?
>>

A language dies when the last programmer using that language dies and
maybe not even then...
From: Bob Butler on

<bitshifter(a)sympatico.ca> wrote in message
news:4b7abc42.935421(a)news.newshosting.com...
> On Tue, 16 Feb 2010 08:00:53 -0600, DanS
> <t.h.i.s.n.t.h.a.t(a)r.o.a.d.r.u.n.n.e.r.c.o.m> wrote:
>
>>=?Utf-8?B?SmFrZSBUaGUgSGF3aw==?= <Jake The
>>Hawk(a)discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
>>news:EA24C5A0-E2E4-49A3-8A97-72B07DE73E26(a)microsoft.com:
>>
>>>
>>> Why is this newsgroup still active? I thought Microsoft killed VB6 in
>>> 2002?
>>>
>
> A language dies when the last programmer using that language dies and
> maybe not even then...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/feb/04/ancient-language-extinct-speaker-dies

Watch for the release of Bo.Net... English syntax but with Bo words
substituted so MS can claim it as an "improved" version of Bo.


From: Tom Shelton on
On 2010-02-16, Bob Butler <noway(a)nospam.ever> wrote:
>
><bitshifter(a)sympatico.ca> wrote in message
> news:4b7abc42.935421(a)news.newshosting.com...
>> On Tue, 16 Feb 2010 08:00:53 -0600, DanS
>> <t.h.i.s.n.t.h.a.t(a)r.o.a.d.r.u.n.n.e.r.c.o.m> wrote:
>>
>>>=?Utf-8?B?SmFrZSBUaGUgSGF3aw==?= <Jake The
>>>Hawk(a)discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
>>>news:EA24C5A0-E2E4-49A3-8A97-72B07DE73E26(a)microsoft.com:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Why is this newsgroup still active? I thought Microsoft killed VB6 in
>>>> 2002?
>>>>
>>
>> A language dies when the last programmer using that language dies and
>> maybe not even then...
>
> http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/feb/04/ancient-language-extinct-speaker-dies
>
> Watch for the release of Bo.Net... English syntax but with Bo words
> substituted so MS can claim it as an "improved" version of Bo.
>
>

To close to boo.

--
Tom Shelton