Sure, but Delphi was released in 1995 as the first version, whereas this was something I was programming in 1992 (and I came late to the party with Nextstep 3).

Sure, but Delphi was released in 1995 as the first version, whereas this was something I was programming in 1992 (and I came late to the party with Nextstep 3). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Delphi_(software) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Delphi_(software) Visual Basic came out in 1991, by which time Nextstep was already at version 2.1 So yes, these things existed, but after Next had demonstrated them.