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this is rapid development all over again, it funny how the pendulum go as years pass.

I'm thinking of bringing back Basic but with a twist. Hear me out. You'd have a forms package built in. It would be a visual approach for programming business apps. Haven't come up with a clever name for it yet.

What about "Visual <something>"? Since, you know, it's visual.

This idea sounds promising. Who knows... you might even get one of the tech giants interested! Some of them have a lot of business customers that could use something like this.

Strong! I feel like we both see the future

> Strong! I feel like we both see the future

You must be the Oracle of Delphi. Now that would be a nice product name for a visual IDE.

I can’t believe what a rich vein of originality we have formed with this thread. Watch and learn, nerds!

If only we could bundle it with the world's most commonly used tabular data tool, it could run the entire world

Don't you think that would be going too far? I worry what unholy creations people might come up with... A tabular data tool with a full development environment might just be too much power concentrated in a single application.

Nah people will just use it to run football pools and fantasy baseball leagues. It won't be a serious thing.

The dialog of this thread could fill out three panels of an XKCD comic quite nicely.

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