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My first IDE was Visual Basic 6, before that it was QBasic which was bundled with the Win95 CD. VB6 was just incredible with what you could glue together so qu
by filereaper 3y ago
My first IDE was Visual Basic 6, before that it was QBasic which was bundled with the Win95 CD.
VB6 was just incredible with what you could glue together so quickly and easily.
- mschaef 3y agoEven VB1 was near miraculous for the time. It catches a lot of flack, but VB took Windows programming (which formerly required knowledge of C, $600 worth of tooling, and a multi-step build process) and made it a $99.99 drag/drop affair. Charles Petzold's comments on "Hello World" in early Windows give a bit of a flavor of what Windows programming was like prior to VB. http://www.charlespetzold.com/blog/2014/12/The-Infamous-Windows-Hello-World-Program.html http://www.charlespetzold.com/blog/2014/12/The-Infamous-Wind...