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Re: I have some ideas / suggestions for all programmers
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lugnet.cad.dev
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Fri, 2 Aug 2002 09:14:02 GMT
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"Travis Cobbs" <tcobbs@REMOVE.halibut.com> wrote in message
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> And I strongly disagree with your statement about VB6 DLLs. That's • similar
> to telling potential program authors that we don't want anything they • might
> produce if they're going to program in Visual Basic. I'd much rather have • a
> program written in VB (with the associated DLL requirements) than no • program
> at all. Given that all of the LDraw programs are pretty much written for
> fun, no one has any place criticizing anyone else's choice of programming
> language. And the fact is that if you choose to program in VB, the • runtime
> DLLs are required. To me, complaints about VB6 DLLs just make it less
> likely that more programs will be written.
Being a VB programmer myself who doesn't have the time or the inclination to
learn another language like Delphi, C++, etc. (I don't even have the
inclination to learn VB.NET!) I've got to agree here. The VB runtime DLLs
should not be an issue - have you checked your WinME, W2K, or WXP system
files on a virgin install? Those operating systems include the VB6 runtimes
as part of the OS, so you can drop a VB6 exe on and run without needing a
full install (except if any OCXs are used that aren't already in the OS).
And most other apps have runtime DLLs too - what about MFC42.DLL for VC++
(and I guess other languages) that use the MFC calls? If you use API calls
in any way then you effectively have runtime DLLs - those API functions have
to be exported from something, if you statically included every DLL that you
needed to use your EXE files would be *huge* :(
Dan
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