Even 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 too

Even 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...