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> VB was the one thing that most closely approached the promise of object orientation: "bolt-together," "off-the-shelf" components that you could build software
by omnibrain 4y ago
> VB was the one thing that most closely approached the promise of object orientation: "bolt-together," "off-the-shelf" components that you could build software with.
I think Delphi perfected it with the data aware components. If you had a DB you could throw together a CRUD application with several screens with tablegrids and edit fields without any code at all. Even Master:Detail relations are taken care of. (Of course it's not pretty and it's going to miss validation, etc...)
- petepete 4y agoDelphi's data aware components were power tools. It didn't take much longer than building something in Access, but dead easy to plug it into a RDBMS; extremely fast to work with; stable, simple to deploy. As I remember, making validation errors pretty was a bit of a chore, but on most of our backend stuff we just showed the SQL error and it usually made sense.