* Microsoft is turning VB in to C++ @ 2000-02-16 0:00 David Botton 2000-02-17 0:00 ` Jim Rogers 0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread From: David Botton @ 2000-02-16 0:00 UTC (permalink / raw) Microsoft is turning VB in to C++ http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/nextgen/language.asp ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 3+ messages in thread
* Re: Microsoft is turning VB in to C++ 2000-02-16 0:00 Microsoft is turning VB in to C++ David Botton @ 2000-02-17 0:00 ` Jim Rogers 2000-02-17 0:00 ` Pascal Obry 0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread From: Jim Rogers @ 2000-02-17 0:00 UTC (permalink / raw) In article <XhAq4.1061$4W1.104889@news4.usenetserver.com>, "David Botton" <David@Botton.com> wrote: > Microsoft is turning VB in to C++ > http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/nextgen/language.asp > > The documented OOP extensions of Visual Basic certainly look a lot like C++. The place the really fall on their faces is their view of concurrency. They define "Free Threads". "Free Threads" appear to be little concurrent chunks that must execute completely asynchronously from the rest of the code. There does not seem to be any equivalent to a Rendezvous, or even mutually exclusive access to shared memory. -- Jim Rogers Colorado Springs, Colorado USA Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ Before you buy. ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 3+ messages in thread
* Re: Microsoft is turning VB in to C++ 2000-02-17 0:00 ` Jim Rogers @ 2000-02-17 0:00 ` Pascal Obry 0 siblings, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread From: Pascal Obry @ 2000-02-17 0:00 UTC (permalink / raw) [-- Warning: decoded text below may be mangled, UTF-8 assumed --] [-- Attachment #1: Type: text/plain, Size: 932 bytes --] Jim Rogers a �crit dans le message <88h19v$5em$1@nnrp1.deja.com>... >The documented OOP extensions of Visual Basic certainly look a lot like >C++. The place the really fall on their faces is their view of >concurrency. They define "Free Threads". "Free Threads" appear to >be little concurrent chunks that must execute completely >asynchronously from the rest of the code. There does not seem to be >any equivalent to a Rendezvous, or even mutually exclusive access to >shared memory. > That was my understanding too. "Free Threads" seems not a very hot feature to me :) Pascal. --|------------------------------------------------------ --| Pascal Obry Team-Ada Member --| 45, rue Gabriel Peri - 78114 Magny Les Hameaux FRANCE --|------------------------------------------------------ --| http://perso.wanadoo.fr/pascal.obry --| --| "The best way to travel is by means of imagination" ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 3+ messages in thread
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