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Re:IDEs we had 30 years ago by pxmpxm on Friday December 29, 2023 @12:07AM (#38801926)
Didn't Microsoft more or less just copy everything from Borland Delphi? They had drag and drop GUI stuff in the early 90s.
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Re:IDEs we had 30 years ago by sedatk on Friday December 29, 2023 @03:47AM (#38802933)
No, Delphi came out years after Visual Basic. There was an earlier Turbo Pascal for Windows, but it didn't have visual design features as far as I remember.
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Re:IDEs we had 30 years ago by Narishma on Friday December 29, 2023 @09:41AM (#38805422)
Turbo Pascal for Windows did have a GUI designer, but it was a separate application from the code editor. It wasn't as integrated as VB.
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Re:IDEs we had 30 years ago by jules22 on Friday December 29, 2023 @11:16PM (#38812786)
Even Visual Basic for DOS had a TUI designer. Wasn't addressed in the article.
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