I'm impressed that you got vb6 running on a vista box. My impression was that MS had all but gone out of its way to make sure that wouldn't happen.

I don't think I've ever seen the outpouring of love for a programming language/environment/version like there's been for vb6. Java developers are a passionate bunch, as are Ruby enthusiasts...but vb6 seems to live deep in a lot of people's hearts.

Perhaps this illustrates a fundamental danger in getting too close to a proprietary language: those in control of it have something they want to sell you...namely, the next version. It's not in their longterm interests to leave you sitting pretty, at least not for any length of time.

But hey, I'm in the same boat. I make my living, for the most part, writing asp.net...but if I was smarter and/or had my way, I'd probably become one of those Ruby enthusiasts. Lovely language.