It is supported under what Microsoft has the audacity to call the ‘It just works policy’, which really should be called the ‘because backwards compatibility is chump – change’ policy. The reasons why VB6 remains so relevant have been covered well and repeatedly by others.
Needless to say, this predates Windows 7 Ultimate Edition. For reference, this is the year of the first Gulf War, and a few months after the German reunification – and two years before I was born. A lot of OCT software is written in VB6, so one of my projects this summer was to get a large VB6 project file (~10,000 lines of code with like 10 comments) compiled onto a high end Windows 7 machine. One such example of a system that lingers like the smell of rotten durian-and-jackfruit sorbet is Microsoft’s Visual Basic 6.
Sometimes this is a bad thing: DOS has been around since at least 1981, and still haunts windows machines in the command prompt. Sometimes this is a good thing: LISP was created in the 50s, but LISP and its derivatives retain a base of users today- one is used as the language of instruction for Brown’s introduction to CS class. AVILASH’S GUIDE ON HOW TO INSTALL AND COMPILE LEGACY VB6 CODE.įor all its reputation as a field with rapid turnover, there are certain systems, protocols, and languages for computer programming that seem to have obtained a certain immortality.
