I didn't expect to start the Fallout with something of this nature. Chaos, ever the deceiver, has decided that I need to now, with only a year left in paid support, mentor 5 people on VB6 as well as provide guidance on domain knowledge. That was certainly an unexpected task to fall in my lap.
While I have no doubt that a group consisting of C++, C# and a Java developer will find VB as unwieldy as I did when I first shifted from C++, I have no reason to believe they will struggle for long. Groaning about the tradeoffs, however, is a life-long endeavor.
With any luck, the entire team will see the transition into something a little more modern -- either Java or C#. The future direction is not set and the non-religious arguments do not offer a clear choice. Whichever path we take it can only be an improvement from where we are now.
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