RE: RPGIII compiler vs Visual Basic

They just wrote the code, Walden.  I wrote PC code back then, I know
what it was like.  There was no list of "don't do this or it won't be
compatible".  There was no concept of "well behaved" Windows code until
the whole .NET thing; that's a lot of the reason why the move to managed
code is proving to be so difficult, and why VB6 to VB.NET migration is
not a simple one.

So, yeah, pretty much by definition they did something that wasn't
compatible with the next release, but that could have been just about
any standard Windows programming technique.  Don't lay this crap on the
programmer; it's the fact that the OS was never really a business OS.

Whether .NET will fix that remains to be seen.

Joe

> From: Walden H. Leverich
> 
> >For example, my Post-It Notes program, which was one of my very
> favorites, didn't work past Windows 98.
> 
> OK, but _why_ won't it work? Did they use only defined APIs, or did
they
> do something "special" that didn't continue to work from release to
> release. Did they do the equivilent of looking in a specific column of
a
> joblog for information?