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0 pointspjmlp8y ago0 comments

Instead of doing

    console.alert("Hello World")

We would do (VB)

    MsgBox("Hello World")

Or maybe (Delphi)

    MessageBox("Hello World");

Only hard core C devs bothered to use Win32 directly.

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eli_gottlieb8y ago

Look, if we start comparing today's way of writing end-user applications to Delphi we're just going to sit here crying all the time. It was a beauty and a blessing, and I've never seen any way to develop GUI applications surpass the Delphi Visual Component Library.

Once upon a time, this was a solved problem.

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eli_gottlieb8y ago

Once upon a time, this was a solved problem.

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