if you were a late comer to those days it was amazingly good. the help file from qbasic got me started down a path that didn't end, and getting a visual basic w

if you were a late comer to those days it was amazingly good. the help file from qbasic got me started down a path that didn't end, and getting a visual basic with msdn on cd was even better... it makes me sad when i see the msdn today, and even more so the apple and google docs which are absolutely terrible, bordering on useless in many cases. don't even mention linux development which still seems to be stuck in 1970s mentalities when it comes to usability.