"It's a very visual way to program. You drag and drop a UI together from standardized elements. You could data bind things like input fields to a data source. Y

"It's a very visual way to program. You drag and drop a UI together from standardized elements. You could data bind things like input fields to a data source. You'd double click a button and it takes you to the already created "onclick" event where you do the actual coding. In a way, this is still similar to how you can "program" Microsoft Access today." Yes! I remember Delphi as my first language in school, too. And later in university I could not understand, why in all the other advanced languages like Java, C and C++ doing the same was so hard. Then I discovered Flash and later Flex with Flex Builder. That was a even way more powerful experience. You could draw up anything - and make a button out of it with a click. Or a sophisticated, reusable component. And then it died, because of Adobes unwillingness to open source the technology (and their focus on performance and flashy features and not security). All the bad flash applets that were flying around existed, not because it was so bad, but because it was so easy even for total beginners to make something working fast. But today? I am back to hacking scripts.