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0 pointscheema335mo ago0 comments

> 25 years ago, I was slinging apps together super fast using VB6. It was awesome. It was a level of productivity few modern stacks can approach.

If that were too, wouldn't we all be using VB today?

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majormajor5mo ago

Ever try to maintain a bunch of specialized one-off thrown-together things like that? I inherited a bunch of MS Access apps once ...

everything old is new again

cuu5085mo ago

Excel (and spreadsheets in general) is not quite the same as VB but is similar in that it solves practical problems and normal people can work with it.

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