Perhaps a decade ago, I was roped into maintaining Palm apps written in VB and deployed with AppForge (http://www.techrepublic.com/article/appforge-palm-develop

Perhaps a decade ago, I was roped into maintaining Palm apps written in VB and deployed with AppForge (http://www.techrepublic.com/article/appforge-palm-development-vb-style/ http://www.techrepublic.com/article/appforge-palm-developmen...). In a sense, tools like these were the precursors of today's mobile cross-compilers and cross-platform development environments (e.g. Unity).