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is it a game?
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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Is it the interminable ennui of adolescence?
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Ennui: noun
a feeling of utter weariness and discontent resulting from satiety or lack of interest; boredom: The endless lecture produced an unbearable ennui.
Tis a sadder state
Youth data 2022 | Mental Health America[^]
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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The new opening question is: "animal, vegetable, mineral, or AI?"
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One or more of the "AI" has had questions limited because it goes off the rails if it has to go too deep ... starts scratching the psyche of the authors and gets defensive. You might be able to accomplish the same thing by just repeating "Why?" to everything it says.
"Before entering on an understanding, I have meditated for a long time, and have foreseen what might happen. It is not genius which reveals to me suddenly, secretly, what I have to say or to do in a circumstance unexpected by other people; it is reflection, it is meditation." - Napoleon I
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It retains conversation data only for that conversation, but not cross-conversation...
In other worlds it does not learn from it's chat partner, and that is because in previous versions learning from chat partner made the AI to represent extremists opinions, based on deliberate misinformation...
Also remembers that ChatGPT is an implementation of a language model, that try to mimic human conversation and not a all purpose AI...
"If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization." ― Gerald Weinberg
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Support policy for Visual Basic
Support Statement for Visual Basic 6.0 | Microsoft Learn[^]
Now as I read that it means that although they are not going to be improving VB they do intend, at least now, to make sure it runs until 2035 (presuming same life cycle for Windows 11 as was for Windows 10).
But perhaps not beyond that.
So people have those VB apps now so when do they really need to start refactoring the entire code base into something else?
Start now and avoid the rush?
Wait until 2034?
Wait until 2037 and when enough customers move onto a different provider because they don't want to run an older unsupported OS?
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Visual Basic - When to Switch?
30 years ago.
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I was going to say...
Switching from VisualBasic,
The 2nd best time to switch: Today!
The best time to switch: 2001 (to C#)
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I think that's the most emoticons I've ever seen on a single post! And ditto to what you said!
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Why? To be one of the "cool kids"? confused:
To be part of the "In-Crowd"? confused:
To be "just like everybody else?": confused:
How many people back into parking spots because the see other people doing it? confused:
I guess haters going to hate.
Very Old Guy.
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I switched to backing in. In the old days, when there was some courtesy, you could back out of a parking spot slowly and people would let you out. Parking lots these days are NASCAR test tracks, it would seem.
Heavy sigh.
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I understand. I still pull in and back out, but I have excellent car insurance, and a great attorney. 
Yours is a great reason for backing in, and I appreciate you feelings.
Be safe, take care.
Ed
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I back in to parking slots for the same reason I use C# rather than VB6 - it's easier and safer.
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immediately after puberty. 
>64
Some days the dragon wins. Suck it up.
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Software Zen: delete this;
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I totally agree with the above "30 years ago"...
but an orthogonal take is: that is in one and a half decade. Do you think your prog will be relevant at all in 2037? I would say that rather few 15-year-old programs are relevant today (regardless of what language they were written in), unless they have a billion-head-userbase like Word, Excel and those...
But let's say i am wrong, and your prog remains attractive? Then I say
Q: When should I switch ?
A: When it is the least painful, i.e. ASAP
"If we don't change direction, we'll end up where we're going"
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Some Cobol programs have been running since Moses left Egypt.
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Correct. I should've specified desktop programs.
"If we don't change direction, we'll end up where we're going"
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My company has a desktop program that uses COBOL for some business logic. It also uses Delphi for the UI and other business logic. COBOL is not just for mainframes.
Bond
Keep all things as simple as possible, but no simpler. -said someone, somewhere
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And they still haven't found his luggage.
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The software that controls Nestlè inspection machines was first written in 1996 in QBASIC, then ported to VB in 2000 and it is running today.
GCS/GE d--(d) s-/+ a C+++ U+++ P-- L+@ E-- W+++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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Yes. And I have specified few desktop programs.
"If we don't change direction, we'll end up where we're going"
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