1 Nov
2009
1 Nov
'09
12:12 p.m.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Chris Halarewich" <halarewich at gmail.com>
To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts"
<cctalk at classiccmp.org>
Sent: Sunday, November 01, 2009 1:54 PM
Subject: Re: Why I never saw my own posts!
from wikipeadia
History
VB 1.0 was introduced in 1991. The drag and drop design for creating the
user interface is derived from a prototype form generator developed by
Alan
Cooper <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Cooper> and his company called *
Tripod*. Microsoft contracted with Cooper and his associates to develop
Tripod into a programmable form system for Windows 3.0, under the code
name
*Ruby* (no relation to the Ruby programming
language<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruby_(programming_language)>
).
So it wasn't a ready made app like Visio that MS purchased, just a form
generator that MS turned into VB using a 3rd party. And like many MS
products it took then a few revisions for it to be good enough to use.