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The History and Legacy of Visual Basic
How Visual Basic became the world’s most dominant programming environment, its sudden fall from grace, and why its influence is still shaping the future of software development.
Cooper decided to promptly throw away the 25,000 lines of messy prototype C code that comprised Tripod and start over from scratch, feeling like it was so irredeemably full of time-pressured hacks, it'd simply be easier to rewrite it with a cleaner design. They ultimately decided to borrow Omega's Embedded Basic code editor and event model, a process Ferguson recounts as being “roughly equivalent to reaching into a monkey's brain and pulling out only the mushy bits relating to vision.” Thanks to Alan Cooper, Michael Geary, Yiren Lu, Molly Mielke, Ivana Ivanovich, Jane Kelly, Taylor Savage, Kevin Lynagh, Cameron Burgess, and Krithika Muthukumar for contributions, comments, discussion, and edits.
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