What if there was a NEW vb6

[Schmidt]

That would be a really interesting test to be able to run. The problem would have to be non-trivial, and the skill levels of the developers would have to be roughly equivalent in the different languages, which makes the test likely to be impossible, but it sure would be interesting to a lot of people.

I've already put some thoughts (as well as quite some work) into that in my post #730:
http://www.vbforums.com/showthread.p...=1#post4917477

This is, as I think a nice mix of DB-related (search)stuff, networking-stuff, threading-stuff -
text-parsing is involved - and a little GUI-challenge is in there as well, all of them things
we use in our daily work as (mainly) LOB-developers.

It's still doable in a managable (teams allowed) amount of time I think - and a few additional
challenges could be added as well (with regards to engineering, which almost always touches
the realm of easy extensibility...

E.g. one could require in addition, that the App should be already designed in a way, to allow
easy movement of the Server-part to a WebServer - and the GUI-Part into a Browser (as a
kind of "customer-change-request").

Would like to see solutions in other languages as well (e.g. a Javascript, or Python-solution) -
not only .NET or VB6 as the contenders - a Forum for that is already there - and when it's
indeed well-engineered solutions which come out in the end - we could make that even a
sticky-thread in the contest-forum, kept alive to allow other interested devs to provide
better designed or optimized solutions over time - and stick them in there.


Olaf