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>>>MS had nothing to lose and everything to gain moving FP to VFP....the reverse is true with VB ... the general VB community seems to want inheritance and all the other constructs that we have that they don't but they find ways to work around them. Can you imagine the nightmare if MS made wholesale changes to the way VB operates and it breaks all the myriad of applications running in VB, using VBA, or VB Script? To gain what?
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>>Oh, yeah, right. Like M$ has NEVER done that before. Ever heard of Word or Excel macros...
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>Word and Excel did not require a complete rewrite to go to VBA.

Yes, my point exactly. And they still broke alot of existing code...