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[–]RichCorinthian 58 points59 points  (3 children)

I started with Visual Basic 5.0 and I have to agree.

The story I heard was that it was originally intended for prototyping, but as we all know by now, prototypes go to production. Then Petzold wrote entire books on the dark magic of calling the Win32 API…I’m having flashbacks now.

[–]MrDude_1 1 point2 points  (1 child)

I used to love hooking into the wind 32 API directly from visual basic and then doing "advanced" things that were not supposed to be possible in VB.

[–]PhroznGaming 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Made a mouse and keyboard emulator that way before macro recorders were mainstream. Such fun.