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VB3 was my first real language. I'd attempted stuff before on spectrum and BBC BASIC and later QBASIC, but VB3 not only allowed easy development of a GUI applic
by iso1631 7y ago
VB3 was my first real language. I'd attempted stuff before on spectrum and BBC BASIC and later QBASIC, but VB3 not only allowed easy development of a GUI application, it allowed you to distribute an EXE -- a real grownup program, not a ".bas" file. I wrote my first commercial program in VB3 or VB4, to look after book orders, had an access database behind it, and all sorts of oddness to do printing if I recall rightly. Used VB4 as well, and I guess I used VB5 as well.
I moved on, to the web, to things like TCL/TK, Java, and Perl. Some things never change, I have a full screen vim window with a brand new perl script on my right-hand monitor as I type this.
Despite having dumped windows 20 years ago, I've still got a place in my heart for visual basic.
- dceddia 7y agoI'll always fondly remember Visual Basic as the language that let me make real Windows applications with the language I already knew and understood. I was just a kid, maybe 10 or 12, when I learned to program with QBASIC and later VB5. I remember strongly feeling that a ".bas" file wasn't a real program. I so much wanted to be able to run my programs as real .EXE files. There was some kind of QBASIC compiler that made an .EXE but I felt like that was just... still not real enough. That desire for making a real bonafide .EXE was one of the driving reasons I (tried to) learn C.