[Info-vax] "1960s" programming interfaces

[Paul Sture]

On 2014-01-28, David Froble <davef at tsoft-inc.com> wrote:
> Paul Sture wrote:
>> David Froble wrote:
>>
>>> John E. Malmberg wrote:
>>>> One of the worse IDE behaviors was one that did syntax checking by
>>>> popping up a model dialog about a syntax error if you moved the mouse
>>>> off of a incomplete line in order to look something up.  The entire IDE
>>>> was locked up until you manually dismissed the syntax error.
>>> Gee, that wouldn't be Visual Basic, would it.  That was one of my
>>> biggest bitches about it.
>>
>> I only used VB version 3, in the mid-nineties.  Since it didn't have
>> a means of splitting source lines you had to put up with horizontal
>> scrolling, so the variables you were referencing disappeared from view.
>> I have hated horizontal scrolling ever since.
>
> VB6 is actually, in my opinion, reasonable.  Not good, reasonable.

And support discontinued.

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Paul Sture