On 04/04/2017 10:06 AM, Diesel wrote:
There are still a lot of "text" things you can do in DOS that
Windows can't do.
Yep.

Microsoft blinked but we had a little panic last fall when there was a
rumor the command prompt was going to be replaced by PowerShell in Win
10. There's nothing wrong with PowerShell -- except it doesn't run bat
files.

Fortunately they heard the screams of agony in Redmond. There are more
people than M$ will ever admit that are still running Visual Studio 6.0.
VB 6.0 is not VB .NET and the migration path is painful especially if
you have a collection of third party thing-a-ma-bobs. I'm not a VB
programmer so I don't remember what they were called but there was a
whole cottage industry building the widgets.

Python had the same push back. 2.7 may live forever because a lot of
people weren't impressed with 3.