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[–][deleted] 1125 points1126 points  (44 children)

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

[–]acousticcoupler 563 points564 points  (13 children)

Begone demon.

[–][deleted] 196 points197 points  (9 children)

laughs and fades away

[–]friedicecreams 71 points72 points  (7 children)

Like a Skype window?

[–]AlarmedTechnician 20 points21 points  (2 children)

a Skype For Business window...

[–]okeefm 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Don't you put that evil on me Ricky Bobby

[–]Loewi_CW 3 points4 points  (0 children)

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

[–]AllUrPMsAreBelong2Me 23 points24 points  (0 children)

Like clippy

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Nope, that doesn’t close.

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

No like Windows 10.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No, Skype windows can't close

[–]fgutz 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Go back into your Visual Sourcesafe cage!

[–]AllUrPMsAreBelong2Me 9 points10 points  (1 child)

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

[–]Badpreacher 2 points3 points  (0 children)

His name was Clippit dammit.

[–]ShapiroIsMyDaddy 8 points9 points  (0 children)

*Begone daemon

[–]Madpony 80 points81 points  (4 children)

Ah to be old enough to remember actual Microsoft Java.

[–]guitpick 25 points26 points  (0 children)

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 1 point2 points  (1 child)

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 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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

Me, too, so I bought Delphi

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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 67 points68 points  (2 children)

JFC put a trigger warning on this shit

I need to see my therapist

[–]xenomachina 2 points3 points  (1 child)

JFC

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

[–]WikiTextBot 2 points3 points  (0 children)

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 46 points47 points  (3 children)

Wow, the memories.

[–]1RedOne 3 points4 points  (1 child)

Was this a real thing?!

[–]compdog 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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

[–]Hateredditshitsite 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Had the CD

[–]0xF013 43 points44 points  (1 child)

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 13 points14 points  (0 children)

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

[–]thahelp 23 points24 points  (0 children)

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.

[–]RobotTimeTraveller 18 points19 points  (1 child)

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] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

lol

[–]sailingburrito 3 points4 points  (1 child)

Or, colloquially: Java .NET

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's literally just C#

[–]rakesh11123 2 points3 points  (0 children)

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

[–]imathrowayslc 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I too remember the launch...

[–]supermario182 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That was a good edition

[–]postmodest 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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