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> I've seen some of the ugliest yet most functional software done in this. Incredibly easy to build feature rich software that unfortunately looked like dog poo
by tpmx 4y ago
> I've seen some of the ugliest yet most functional software done in this. Incredibly easy to build feature rich software that unfortunately looked like dog poop.
Can you find any screenshots to illustrate this? I'm curious about how you make the IBM PC 80x25 text screen look like poop. :)
- keyle 4y agoWhen your product looked like this, it was really hard to compete against new products coming to windows with winform https://winworldpc.com/res/img/screenshots/2x-841fe628c2d754d58f53be733811c3c1-Foxpro%202.0%20-%20Screen.png https://winworldpc.com/res/img/screenshots/2x-841fe628c2d754... vs. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/desktop/winforms/advanced/media/walkthrough-creating-an-accessible-windows-based-application/visual-basic-pizza-order-form.gif?view=netframeworkdesktop-4.8 https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/desktop/winforms/adv...
- kjellsbells 4y agoI dont disagree with you for the era that such comparisons were made, say 1995. But in retrospect I wonder if the kind of people who used these very specific line of business apps were more productive in the gui or the text mode where theyd probably memorized the key sequences by the end of their third day.
- hulitu 4y agoThe speed of your windows program was much lower. More so if you needed to use the mouse.