Quote Originally Posted by Niya View Post
My mistake was to think that because this is a forum filled with programmers, logic and reason would prevail. I was wrong, this discussion is ruled by fanaticism. I should have realized sooner. It's very much like discussions I've had with people after telling them that the Earth being created in 6 days is childish garbage. No amount of logic and reason can reach them either. I've stopped long ago trying to reason with religious fanatics. I should have adopted the same attitude here.
...he says, as he storms from the room like a petulant child.

You need to stop generalizing. The past 30 or so posts in this thread have been remarkably balanced, I think, except for your rants. Instead of engaging on specific points, you keep coming back to a single emotional argument: moving from VB6 to VB.Net was a painful experience for you, and from that, you believe VB6 users are delusional. The rest of us have tried to discuss specifics with both sides of the aisle, but you keep derailing the conversation with name-calling, anecdotal fallacies, and appeals to emotion.

Fanatical devotion over the use (or disuse) of any programming language is silly. These are tools for creating software, nothing more. Freaking out because people use an old language you dislike is just as silly as them freaking out because you use a modern one.

I think the last month or so of this thread has done a nice job reiterating the 80% of cases where .NET is a better choice, the 19% where .NET and VB6 are interchangeable, and the < 1% of cases where VB6 is better.*

*Imaginary numbers, 1% is probably too generous.

It is only a difference of beliefs, but if we are right then the consequences for the non-believers will be heavy and there won't be turning back, and if we are wrong we won't suffer any consequence, isn't that a fair deal.
Well said, dee-u. I think axisdj deserves a ton of credit for "putting his money where his mouth is". That's more than a lot of us are willing to do, and I wish him the best.