On Sun, 2009-01-18 at 02:34 -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
On Sunday 18 January 2009, M Harris <harrismh777@earthlink.net> wrote about 'Re: [opensuse] Perhaps <OT>: Visual Basic into MONO':
On Thursday 15 January 2009 13:05, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
If you run it against programs of any complexity you either get code that won't compile (syntax error) OR you get code that has many more bugs (runtime errors).
geeze... remember when "computer science" wasn't an oxymoron?
I don't believe it is. Unfortunately, I've yet to deal with a company or project that applied it to IT support or software development formally and consistently.
Instead, we get XP and unit tests instead of correct code with known failure cases.
It should be noted that, to the best of my knowledge, there is no BASIC dialect with a behavior as well specified as the C or C++ standards. (Those leave a bit to be desired, too, but are probably the best we have.)
Of course. But in this case, it is MS and their own VBasic product. The various dialects of VB must surely be understood by MS. Surely they know the syntax and could import it into the .NET framework. I am a bit confused by the real issues. VB code (any code, for that matter), has two relevant properties in this context: 1) the language itself. Is it supported at the syntactic level? 2) system interface. (G)UI, hardware access (keyboards, mice, files) So, does .NET allow things to be written in VB at all? I know that languages like C# are preferred. But they are not mandatory. Are they? I would have guessed that item 2 in the list above is the primary issue. So if an application has separated the user interface from the calculations ('pure language' calculations and no user/system I/O), shouldn't it be 'easy' to get 'pure language' parts into .NET/MONO? As always, the GUI is the trouble part. Or are the issues different than this? -- Roger Oberholtzer OPQ Systems / Ramböll RST Ramböll Sverige AB Krukmakargatan 21 P.O. Box 17009 SE-104 62 Stockholm, Sweden Office: Int +46 8-615 60 20 Mobile: Int +46 70-815 1696 -- "On two occasions I have been asked (by members of Parliament!), 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question. - Charles Babbage 1791-1871) English computer pioneer, philosopher And remember: It is RSofT and there is always something under construction. It is like talking about a large city with all construction finished. Not impossible, but very unlikely. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org