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Before moving past Visual Basic classic, let’s take a look at how Microsoft evolved VB through derivatives, one of which still exists today.
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And now, a brief interlude while we ponder the personal computing coulda, shoulda been, Microsoft and IBM’s OS/2.
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Visual Basic was instantly popular and its ease of use and suitability for application development helped drive Windows to new levels of market acceptance.
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Visual Basic was the right tool at the right time, and it was everything that Windows API development was not: Easy, visual, and fun.
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While this article series focuses on Windows, Microsoft’s empire was initially built on an even shakier foundation: The BASIC programming language.
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In researching the history of Microsoft Basic, I realized I had forgotten something: We need to look at “hello, world” in Microsoft Basic too!
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As a fun preview for the next several articles in this series, here’s “hello, world” in modern and classic versions of Visual Basic.
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It’s time to say goodbye to the Windows API, which was as hastily cobbled-together as the platform on which it originally ran.
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A Windows-based take on “hello, world” neatly explains why Windows API programming was never going to take over the world.
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The process of writing a Windows application with the native Windows API in the C programming language hasn’t changed a lot in the past 30+ years.
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