My first IDE was Visual Basic 6, before that it was QBasic which was bundled with the Win95 CD.
VB6 was just incredible with what you could glue together so quickly and easily.
VB6 was just incredible with what you could glue together so quickly and easily.
Charles Petzold's comments on "Hello World" in early Windows give a bit of a flavor of what Windows programming was like prior to VB.
http://www.charlespetzold.com/blog/2014/12/The-Infamous-Wind...