There is no great secret that VB6 gets along very well with embedded machine code and the assembly language.

These bad habits have probably been taken from the 3D game industry where the size of the game was almost always confused with its complexity and novelty. With the increase of the processor speed, compiler designers have become increasingly careless, overestimating the hardware power.

Nevertheless, at the time, VB6 designers were true visionaries, who have done an incredible job which has withstood time. This throws us into an older conclusion, namely if it is new it is not necessary better. ADA – an 'old' compiler underlying F22's raptor on board equipment, or Fortran and COBOL - which are widely used) 1-3. Fortunately, compilers do not get old (ie. The VB6 compiler has been designed to satisfy the slow processors of the late 90’s (800MHz – 1300MHz). Released on the market in mid 1998, Visual Basic 6.0 (abbreviated VB6) has been and it still is the most successful version in the history of Visual Basic.

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