Re:The .NET Language Strategy
by fiddlerwoaroof on Wednesday February 01, 2017 @11:53PM
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I'm not really sure of the timeline, but I think Delphi pioneered the "reusable components" paradigm and VB was Microsoft's entry into the market.
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Delphi came after VB3. VB3 had "custom controls" called VBX (Visual Basic Extensions), which were the reusable components. It was the precursor to OCX and ActiveX controls.
Re:The .NET Language Strategy
by probablybroken on Thursday February 02, 2017 @08:44AM
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Yes - I migrated from VB -> Delphi - one of the big advantages at the time was you could compile a small executable that didn't require you to distribute several additional disks of vb runtime DLLs with your software.