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>> [4] VB7

You know, Karl, that's interesting. Mind if I share a bit of history with you?

VB7 might be to VB what VFP 3 was to Fox. It'll be the first release after a major re-engineering effort in the VB codebase to surface an object-oriented programming interface. It's also the first release requiring drastic new mindset by hundres of thousands of VB developers, not to mention countless legacy applications and incalculable backward-compatibility issues.

If the history of VFP is anything to go by, there might be a huge risk in overselling VB7, in the sense that it may take several years for a fully object-oriented VB to become sufficiently stable and feature-full.

In the VFP world, VFP 3 was neat but not successful, primarily because of stability issues. We VFP developers bemoaned that VFP was not being more promoted at that time, but in reality this was a blessing because pushing VFP 3 would be like pushing a pig, and a laughingstock would have probably resulted.

So maybe VB7 will need to be taken with a grain of salt, needing a subsequent release or two to actually become usable in practice.

VB8, maybe, but VB7? I don't think so. We'll see.

Andre