PLEASE READ IF YOU PROGRAM: Help Continue Visual Basic

Mike wrote...
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If you do any VB programming you should know that currently the mainstream
support for VB6 ended on March 31, 2005. And if you do any VB coding please
help us and sign the petition that we are sending to Microsoft for
continuation of support!
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Please help keep a language around that has been here since 1980. It can
make everyones like easier to deal with. Especially us old timers. (smile)

First, don't make patently untrue statements in advocacy. The BASIC
that existed in 1980 is definitely NOT any version of VB, nor even
close to QBASIC. The old, mandatory line number BASIC deserved its
extinction. Visual Basic if you include its immediate predecessor Quick
Basic has only been around since the late 1980s.

Next, this is one of the pleasures of using proprietary languages: the
company that sells the language you've come to depend upon has the
unilateral ability to pull the rug out from under you. It's your own
fault for choosing a proprietary language.

You might want to consider whether it'd be easier to port to
PowerBASIC, RealBASIC or TrueBASIC. It's unlikely any of those BASIC
dialects would sacrifice backward compatibility.

Harlin, thank you for your positive contributions to the community

Although I do think you're on a hiding to nothing trying to reason with Aaron
- you've more than adequately demonstrated the accuracy and cogency of your
side of things and everyone else already agrees with you, but I hope you're
wasting too much time and energy believing you can actually change Aaron's
mind, since he's clearly impervious to any logic and common sense. Unless
you're just enjoying seeing him make an idiot of himself, which I must say is
why I keep posting to this thread

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Harlan Grove wrote:
What's the matter? Having some difficulty getting matrix inversion code
programmed in VBA?
Aaron probably hasn't found the funciton module code to do it yet; I'd say
it's because (a) he's not looking, or (b) he's not found it yet, because the
person who wrote it as a VB function hasn't turned up on Google yet. It's
also possible that no such person exists, since I think one would be crazy to
do this in VB, since there are probably some perfectly good statistical
packages out there that you could plug into VB.

Re-use of code is a perfectly acceptable solution in my book, but you do take
the risk that the code will have a bug in it that you cna't do anything about
- the risk is greater the more complex the funciton is, and I'd have a
"matrix inversion" function right up there. Which is why I'm never going to
be using any of Aaron's stuff

Aaron Kempf wrote:
i need people to start speaking the TRUTH.
Hey, I was the one who said you were giving that homeless man head, wasn't I?


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Oh, and we're all still waiting for that matrix inversion routine in VB, btw :
) Not that I even understand what a inverting a matrix is (it's been a long
time since I did matrices in first year maths at uni!), but I'm happy to
admit my ignorance on this matter and defer to the knowledge of others.
Thankfully, you're not in that category of "others"

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