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Re:UX Is a Canary in a Coal Mine by gjolund on Thursday August 27, 2015 @12:18AM (#10127518)
Visual Basic was awful to work with.
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Re:UX Is a Canary in a Coal Mine by pavlov on Thursday August 27, 2015 @01:29AM (#10127697)
No, it was pretty much unique in 1991.

Visual Basic 1.0 was definitely a product that "thrilled users and grew the bottom line", as Alan Cooper puts it.

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Re:UX Is a Canary in a Coal Mine by Gibbon1 on Thursday August 27, 2015 @01:51AM (#10127746)
I was out of the mainstream by 1991, but I seem to remember a bunch of completely failed projects and companies as people tried to switch to windows development using C++. As in we put our best programmers on it, hired extra help, they failed and the company went down.

Projects using Visual Basic fared a lot better.

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