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My History of Visual Studio (Part 1)

• davi 17y ago
  "C++ is like that, a lot of things seem easy until you combine them with other things and then they get hard." Could've been said, usefully, of Drupal in http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=860049 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=860049, and of many another things as well.
• messel 17y ago
  Pretty fascinating history of a single application from a first person perspective. Hopefully some of the valuable lessons learned can leak into modern web programming practices (speaking from a desktop to recent web coder)
• wallflower 17y ago
  Anyone remember the joy of using VB4 or Turbo Pascal 2.0? I'm feeling nostalgic. Podcast featuring early Turbo Pascal history via the original authors of the Wildcat BBS (visit to Ander Hejlsberg's house). Listening to this now.. http://blogs.teamb.com/craigstuntz/2009/05/14/38310/ http://blogs.teamb.com/craigstuntz/2009/05/14/38310/
  • sgoraya 17y ago
    I was a turbo c++ user - it was my first compiler and dev environment ever. I purchased it from one of the 'software sales expos' at our local convention center along with a really bad 'how to program c++' book :) - must have been in 1995 or so (summer of my junior year in HS). Moved to visual studio in college.