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Visual Basic 6, Delphi, PowerBuilder, Paradox, Oracle Forms, etc. They had warts, but generally got better after each release.


VB6 is terrible. I much prefer the current front end landscape rather than that

"Dim it up!"


For who? Its bad points were mostly fixable. MS just stopped working on it an threw out it.


correction: "and threw it out" (replacing it with Dot-Net, which wasn't backward compatible.)


for everyone.. terrible IDE that is more suited for simple scripting, than the complex client logic that exist in today's webapps.

Terrible language. End Sub as opposed to curly braces? Really?


Example "complex client logic" that we can analyze here?

As far as programming language syntax preferences, that's a different subject, and largely subjective.




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