Bill Gates demonstrates Visual Basic (1991)

by seddinon 9/10/2020, 6:35:49 PM with 5 comments
  • by nomelon 9/10/2020, 8:26:21 PM

    My favorite part about Visual Basic was the help files. They were absolutely great for someone learning to code. From what I remember, there was a snippet of example code for basically everything.

  • by smileypeteon 9/11/2020, 7:10:08 PM

    This video is pretty lengthy but well worth a watch; the oral history of Alan Cooper, the 'father of Visual Basic'

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-wtGFgaKYI0

    EDIT: One highlight is where Alan Cooper gets a cease-and-desist letter from Microsoft for calling himself 'The Father of Visual Basic'...

    https://youtu.be/-wtGFgaKYI0?t=9666

  • by zubairqon 9/10/2020, 11:09:32 PM

    I absolutely love Visual Basic and am trying to make a Javascript version at appshare.co

  • by sktrdieon 9/10/2020, 9:21:03 PM

    This shows me that coding hasn't evolved at all over the last 30 years.

  • by PostThisTooFaston 9/10/2020, 7:16:41 PM

    The '90s were full of ballyhoo about object orientation and "soon we'll be bolting together software with off-the-shelf components."

    Thanks to the failure to standardize C++ ABIs (among other reasons) that didn't happen... except for VBXs. You really could throw together a CRUD app pretty quickly with off-the-shelf VBX controls.