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Re:Ask HN: Why did Visual Basic die? by protocolture on Monday September 11, 2023 @07:51PM (#37475235)
In high school I got a gig rebuilding a pre 2000 Access DB + VBA front end in office 2003ish due to some kind of incompatibility that was preventing them from upgrading their PC's.

It was a chemical safety database. It was used to identify chemical risks and track the storage of the chemicals.

I pray near daily that someone else came along years later and rebuilt it in a modern language.

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Re:Ask HN: Why did Visual Basic die? by davidmurdoch on Monday September 11, 2023 @07:56PM (#37475266)
Ah yes, where testing just means "I hit save on the live database file and didn't received an angry call from accounting 2 minutes later"
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