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Well - basically, if you wanted to become a fighter pilot and had VB1-6 experience and wanted the "RAD" forms tools, but also wanted true OOP, there was always.
by jjkaczor 4y ago
Well - basically, if you wanted to become a fighter pilot and had VB1-6 experience and wanted the "RAD" forms tools, but also wanted true OOP, there was always... Delphi
You could do pretty much anything with Delphi that you could do with C/C++ on Windows.
- simonh 4y agoTrue, but that's also true of .NET
- dspillett 4y agoI thing the point being made is that those things were available prior to .net - Delphi existed in a stable state with those facilities long before .net did.
- jjkaczor 4y agoCorrect - but Delphi was available in the VB3-4 timeframe, years ahead of .NET. When .NET was in beta, I managed to participate through a Microsoft friend - and, saw that the writing-was-on-the-wall... I dropped my tentative exploration of Java (I had even become a Sun partner) and focussed all my efforts on C#, I could see that was the way forward (especially considering it was up for ECMA/ISO certification as well) and basically never touched VB.NET or VB again. (Outside of some VBA within Excel/Word/etc)
- TedDoesntTalk 4y agoIt is not true that you could do everything in early .NET that you could do with Win32. Not all Win32 functions were exposed in .NET
- starik36 4y agoYou could always PInvoke into any Win32 function. There was/is even a website to help you with a declaration. https://www.pinvoke.net/ https://www.pinvoke.net/
- orthoxerox 4y agoIt's not a coincidence that Microsoft poached Anders Hejlsberg, the creator of Delphi, to work on C# and .NET.