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On Thu, 19 Mar 2015 16:23:04 -0700, Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid>
declaimed the following:

>Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> writes:
>
>> Anyone remember the big backwards incompatible changes made to Visual
>> Basic?  How long did that take to settle down afterwards?
>
>No idea from me, I never used VB.

	VB6 was Win32API, native code... It was replaced by VB.NET -- .NET API,
"managed" code.

	Imagine if "CPython" 2.x were replaced with "Jython" 3.x, and most of
the Python standard library was replaced with Java packages.
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