[Max Taxable]

Originally Posted by Digital Jedi

You can make fun of vB5 all you want. That's not really my issue. My issue is twofold. One, why do people who've already made the choice to use 5 have to be regarded as, however you wish to phrase it, lacking? Who does that benefit? Did one of the forums mentioned express especial difficulty themselves, are are we just assuming they do/did?

And two, why does it have to be ubiquitous? Okay, we want to save people from making mistakes they'll regret. That's fine and I can agree with that. But "the software is crap" isn't especially informative. And it's generally the first answer given to a question that wasn't necessarily asked. The first thing you have to do is figure out what the user wants out of vB5. Them tell him exactly why that won't work. It's not a matter of being "nice" to vB5. It's a matter of actually making the info useful to the user asking the question, and not having to say "here we go again" every time the subject comes up.

Except, in this particular thread there has been good, informative and detailed information posted, not just subjective ubiquitous stuff. In fact, that's most of the time where v5 is concerned.

One, why do people who've already made the choice to use 5 have to be regarded as, however you wish to phrase it, lacking?

I've never seen that, thought that or said anything like that.

Look, 10s of thousands of people bought the Yugo too. A few even liked it. That did not make the Yugo any less of a piece of crap. Except unlike v5, the Yugo didn't have a Cadillac emblem on it.