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Some miss old handy tools, others miss the old gatekeeping.

• lysace 1y ago
  Gatekeeping or not, it was a useful indicator. There was so much crap.
  • rbanffy 1y ago
    I’ve seen terrible programs written in all sorts of languages.
    • lysace 1y ago
      And there were no patterns, particulary between 1992-1995, for MS Windows apps?
      • tptacek 1y ago
        Bracketing this with '92-'95 makes the claim so much funnier.
        • rbanffy 1y ago
          One thing VB allowed was horrible visual design. When you wrote a Windows app in C or C++, you are happy when the button appears in the UI and you leave it alone at that point. VB allowed people to customise their buttons with all sorts of colours and patterns no sane UI designer would attempt.
          • pvg 1y ago
            Same with Hypercard, perhaps even more so since Hypercard let you respond to UI gestures the standard UI didn't really use like mouseovers.
            • rbanffy 1y ago
              HyperCard, at least initially, didn’t have color, so it somewhat limited how horrendous the UI could be.
  • tptacek 1y ago
    [Nobody][1] [ever][2] [wrote][3] [crap][4] [in][https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sendmail https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sendmail] [C][6].