Application development on the web is much more pleasant than what we were doing on any pre-web platform, and possibly even now. The platform that the web was

Application development on the web is much more pleasant than what we were doing on any pre-web platform, and possibly even now. The platform that the web was designed on (NeXTSTEP) was much nicer to develop on. VB programmers had a much easier time than web development now. The web was designed as a document delivery platform and it continues to show how hard it is to get basic functionality going.