Would a VB6 to Parrot compiler be possible ?

Strangely a similar question came up on a mono list just today - I think my favourite quote from that was :

VB isn't a language, per se. Rather, it's a scripting environment for COM objects.

- you can you read the whole thread here but the bottom line is that it would be trivial to implement the VB6 syntax, but the other features of the "language" are problematic to implement in a language that is supposed to be cross-platform.

My recommendation, if you have a wealth of legacy VB6 code, would be to feed it through the translator in Visual Studio 2003 for instance and then fix the problems by hand ( for instance VB.NET can't take some of the VBA.Collection stuff that people used before VB had proper 'hashes').

/J\