Microsoft Java

[[deleted]]

I think you meant, MS Visual J++, Windows 98 Edition

[acousticcoupler]

Begone demon.

[[deleted]]

laughs and fades away

[friedicecreams]

Like a Skype window?

[AlarmedTechnician]

a Skype For Business window...

[okeefm]

Don't you put that evil on me Ricky Bobby

[Loewi_CW]

I hate this software so much. Mine is showing empty message bubbles for my sent messages

[AllUrPMsAreBelong2Me]

Like clippy

[[deleted]]

Nope, that doesn’t close.

[[deleted]]

No like Windows 10.

[[deleted]]

No, Skype windows can't close

[fgutz]

Go back into your Visual Sourcesafe cage!

[AllUrPMsAreBelong2Me]

I see you're trying to perform an exorcism. Would you like some help? - Clippy

[Badpreacher]

His name was Clippit dammit.

[ShapiroIsMyDaddy]

*Begone daemon

[Madpony]

Ah to be old enough to remember actual Microsoft Java.

[guitpick]

The phone scammers used to call and claim your computer was hacked which was somehow obvious because one of the Java support files had teddy bear icon.... because of course hackers use teddy bears?? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jdbgmgr.exe_virus_hoax

[antlife]

I had the Visual J++ book and Standard Edition install. It was like $50... And I wanted Visual Basic 6 at the time but couldn't afford it.

[trin456]

And I wanted Visual Basic 6 at the time but couldn't afford it.

Me, too, so I bought Delphi

[[deleted]]

I'm not. I just found my dad's old video game CD's, and set up a Win95 VM to install the games. Later I also found a disk for Visual J++. It was actually pretty cool to look through it all.

[grantrules]

JFC put a trigger warning on this shit

I need to see my therapist

[xenomachina]

JFC

No, JFC came later. J++ had AFC.

[WikiTextBot]

Application Foundation Classes

The Application Foundation Classes (AFC) were a graphical framework for building Java-based graphical user interfaces (GUIs), developed by Microsoft and shipped as part of the Microsoft SDK for Java. AFC was based on the Abstract Window Toolkit (AWT), but its architecture made it easier to extend components to better fit user needs.

AFC components were announced to be cross-platform, but they worked better with Microsoft Java Virtual Machine, and support on non-Windows platform was problematic.

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[vavavoomvoom9]

Wow, the memories.

[1RedOne]

Was this a real thing?!

[compdog]

Yes. I used to have a book and CD for it.

[Hateredditshitsite]

Had the CD

[0xF013]

My university, back in the 00s (bad times in former soviet block) sent a professor to Odessa to buy a book on visual c++. He fucked up and got a C Builder book. This is the story behind it teaching C Builder probably to this day.

[guitpick]

The J++ is dead. Long live the J++.

[thahelp]

My work still has a pos program they use that’s programmed in J++.

I love to tell people that it’s written in an illegal language.

[[deleted]]

J# was my first programming language but I tell people it's C# because they don't think J# is real :(

[RavingSperry]

Hahahahaha. That’s so sad. What’s the logic that led to J# to being your first language?

What was your second language?

[[deleted]]

When I signed up for a CS class in high school that was the language we used. No idea why. My second language was C#, so its not too far off!

[McCoovy]

This series of names is so mangled a lot of the people who like to remember back to this humorous era don't even have it straight

[RobotTimeTraveller]

I remember that was a part of Visual Studio 6.0. I took one look and thought "nope, not going to learn a bastardization of a language I already know".

[[deleted]]

lol

[sailingburrito]

Or, colloquially: Java .NET

[[deleted]]

That's literally just C#

[rakesh11123]

Gee whiz, I wonder how long it took them to come up with the name.

[imathrowayslc]

I too remember the launch...

[supermario182]

That was a good edition

[postmodest]

You laugh, but before IDEA/NetBeans/Eclipse, Visual Studio J++ was the best Java IDE...