The parent might have been thinking of QuickBasic, which saved programs as byte-code, along with formatting information to turn it back into text: http://www.qb

The parent might have been thinking of QuickBasic, which saved programs as byte-code, along with formatting information to turn it back into text: http://www.qb64.net/wiki/index.php/Tokenized_Code http://www.qb64.net/wiki/index.php/Tokenized_Code VB6 projects were actually a textual format - even the widget layout: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa241723(v=vs.60).aspx https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa241723(v=vs.60).a... As someone who runs a WYSIWYG app builder startup (https://anvil.works https://anvil.works), I can attest that this is a Really Good Idea for debugging your IDE.