VB before .NET didn't really do OOP at all. The class structure Visual Basic 4,5, & 6 was a thin wrapper around COM. Whatever COM supported Visual Basic supported. And what COM supported were interfaces. C++ is in my mind the standard reference on how OOP is done. Having programed in C++, I cre...

GOTO hasn't and never will be removed from the default dialect, it has its uses. GOSUB however is generally outdated and only necessary for greater QB compatibility. Gosub is used in various BASICs for the same reason as Nested SubRoutines. The situation that you need nested subroutines comes up of...

I believe they have delegates in the form of function pointers.

Rob

Any plans to allow classes to implement interfaces. Being able to create and implement interfaces is central how I design software even more so than inheritance.

Rob Conley

Or just mandate an interface. Your 'derived types' can provide a cast operator to the 'base type'. Using composition in this way is OK, for lack of inheritance, but there are some things to keep in mind... First, anything that can be modeled with inheritance can also be modeled with composition ('d...

Version Control is a piece software that has the ability to track and store multiple versions of the files that make up your software. Typically Version Control works by either a Check-In/Check-Out method or Update/Commit method (the commonly used method) When want to use version control for a proje...

My most important issue is related to crossplatform coding. The next issue is with class modules: my current VB project relies a lot on class module coding. Basically I use forms in the same style I use a class module. T My recommendation is that you go with a model-view-presenter design http://www...

The developers' access stills down, ow.. Does anybody have any experience with https://freepository.com ? Any good? EDIT: nevermind, it doesn't allow anonymous access.. Thought about switching over to subversion? If you don't want to deal with sourceforge then https://secure.cvsdude.org/ has reason...

*thinks of FB replacing VB*, - Every, basic known to man. VB too? Speaking as a VB user, I don't think FB can replace VB unless it can: 2) Provide an integrated debugger which lets you modify code (to a certain extent) without having to restart. Agreed Edit and Continue is one of the prime reason w...

I'm probably wrong about this but, one of the reasons VB is considerably slower than most other languages is due to the OO GUI overhead... perhaps, just thinking.. FB can do virtually anything VB can, you just have to do it at a lower level of abstraction thats all :P That is a falsehood. VB runs a...