1 Nov
2009
1 Nov
'09
10:54 a.m.
from wikipeadia
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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)>
).
On 11/1/09, Teo Zenios <teoz at neo.rr.com> wrote:
----- Original Message ----- From: "Liam Proven" <lproven at gmail.com>
To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" <
cctalk at classiccmp.org>
Sent: Sunday, November 01, 2009 9:23 AM
Subject: Re: Why I never saw my own posts!
On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 2:45 AM, Curt @ Atari Museum
<curt at atarimuseum.com> wrote:
Personally, I'd disagree. I think that by & large, the simple, elegant
Micros~1 products are the stuff they bought in - PowerPoint, Visual
Basic, Hotmail, the original MS Mail. The stuff they developed
in-house tends to be baroque & needlessly complex - e.g. Exchange
Server, Access, or ActiveDirectory.
Exactly who did they buy Visual Basic from and what was the original name
of it?