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Re:RAD Basic – Compatible with Visual Basic 6 projects by gamblor956 on Friday May 06, 2022 @02:04PM (#31288124)
Your "industrial crapware" survived for 14 years with basically no maintenance. Most software today can't even go a week without bugs.

I think VB6 let you create some incredibly powerful, stable, useful programs, and everything you've done since has taken you further away from this ideal state.

People can modify some entries at the top of a text script and run it in the interpreter.

That is significantly harder for most people than just clicking on buttons.

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Re:RAD Basic – Compatible with Visual Basic 6 projects by analog31 on Friday May 06, 2022 @07:50PM (#31290760)
>>> I think VB6 let you create some incredibly powerful, stable, useful programs, and everything you've done since has taken you further away from this ideal state.

That's certainly possible. My job has changed since then, so I'm no longer in a position to write that kind of stuff any more. My present "clientele" tolerates the Python ecosystem well enough.

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