Quote: "I won't start developing for .Net yet. I've got to learn it first. But eventually I can't see how one can avoid it.
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Of course not. MS rules the computer world basically. Doesn't matter how much people whine on about MS, that's the way it is. Give it a couple of years and the only people with 9X will be OAP's and libraries. It's happened before (we all loved 3.11 remember?), and will happen again.
As to .NET, yep programming VB.NET is very very nice. Sorts out a few of those annoyancies from VB6. Especially like the error control myself. All nice. Would recommend it, apart from the obvious .NET framework problem mentioned above. Oh, and it doesn't run that fast on slower PC's (I'm talking about a 800Mhz Laptop here, with 256Mb and 60GB HD, so not a complete dinosaur). And VB6 ran fine on it. And when I mean "run that fast", I mean some little lags when compiling (comparing a pretty small XML project in .NET with a fairly big VB6 project), not severe crippling drops here.
And minor point; it takes bloody forever to install!!!! Go out and have a meal before it's finished or something. Hell, a friend of mine actually went to the pub for a few, and it was *still* running when a got back a couple of hours later. This is on a 2600 machine with 120Gb, 512Mb, and a 52 speed CD. Yikes.
Cheers
I am 99% probably lying in bed right now... so don't blame me for crappy typing