A History of Visual Basic

Name: A History of Visual Basic
Author: EvilGenius

The thirty-five-year arc of Microsoft Visual Basic — lineage, people, and decisions. Especially the people who don't get named in the existing histories. From Dartmouth BASIC in 1964 through the Microsoft acquisition of Alan Cooper's Tripod, the QuickBASIC dynasty, the VB6 peak, and the long .NET-shaped shadow VB6 still casts. Salvage work — the original BASIC creators are already gone, the rest of the dynasty is ageing, and the stories need to be collected before the window closes.

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01 Origins (1964–1992) The lineage that fed Visual Basic. Dartmouth BASIC, the Microsoft BASIC dynasty, Cooper's Tripod, Project Thunder, the May 1991 launch, and the September 1992 VB/DOS sibling. The two parallel histories that almost didn't meet.

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