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About 25 years back, I spent months writing a longish program in Visual Basic 3, because we were going all-Microsoft and I was assured it was The Thing, that automatic GUI creation was the Future.
Visual Basic 4 did not support my program; there wasn't even a way to port it.
That was the last time I depended on any commercial software to be the underlying platform that I had to depend on. Anything but open-source is just begging to have the rug pulled out.
Sole exception is Excel.
Roy Brander /
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2023-09-26 18:39:16
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