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Re:RAD Basic – Compatible with Visual Basic 6 projects by jenscow on Friday May 06, 2022 @07:33AM (#31283908)
> objectively "good" or if it was a first skill/nostalgia effect.

When you consider the mainstream alternatives back then, by the time you've got the message-loop boilerplate working... in VB6 you've already created a functioning form with a database connection.

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Re:RAD Basic – Compatible with Visual Basic 6 projects by JohnBooty on Friday May 06, 2022 @08:37AM (#31284414) 

    When you consider the mainstream alternatives back then
What were the mainstream alternatives?

Folks always seemed to rave about Delphi. That seemed like the "grown up", "better" version of VB, though I never used it.

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Re:RAD Basic – Compatible with Visual Basic 6 projects by jenscow on Friday May 06, 2022 @08:49AM (#31284508)
MFC, or plain C/C++ win32.

But yeh, Delphi was much better than VB (like how turbo pascal was better than QBasic), however it was more of a niche environment used mostly by independent vendors making consumer apps.

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Re:RAD Basic – Compatible with Visual Basic 6 projects by pjmlp on Saturday May 07, 2022 @05:00AM (#31293098)
Niche where? It was everywhere in Europe.

There is a reason why we still have Delphi conferences over here.

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Re:RAD Basic – Compatible with Visual Basic 6 projects by skeeter2020 on Friday May 06, 2022 @09:14AM (#31284717)
You were almost writing full-fledged VB apps if you started with MS Access, made some forms and had a switchboard menu. A little VB Script and you were there.
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