Smalltalk 和 VB
在水木看到一个帖为什么 Smalltalk 没落了?
,提到两篇好文:
http://www.wirfs-brock.com/allen/posts/914
https://gbracha.blogspot.com/2020/05/bits-of-history-words-of-advice.html
Smalltalk 有很多漂亮的设计:如 VM = 系统,按这种设计在裸机上建 VM 就够了 等等,留下了很多遗产。
又看到一个 VB6 的未来的帖:
What’s the Future of VB6? | Toolbox Tech
也有人在追忆 VB https://www.quora.com/Which-programming-language-is-the-easiest-and-best-for-GUI-design
Hello!
For me, it’s Visual Basic.
I’ve learnt it many years ago.
Pascal and Visual Basic were my first experience.
Now I’m programming on PHP but I still have warm memories about Visual Basic.
It’s very powerful and easy language.
I’ve created some apps with this beautiful and good language. You also will able to creating DOS programs if you would need.
But there was one big lack also 😃:
With each project, I had to supply big runtime library (it was 2000 year).
就像那个帖子说的,回顾起来 VB 伴随着微软的巅峰时刻出现又陨落,总时间挺短,95年出 Win95,然后 Office97, VB6 98,到 2002 年就 .net 了。随后微软走下坡路,慢慢也就湮没无闻了。VB真正火也就五六年而已,微软巅峰也不到十年。软件这个领域本来就没有什么永垂不朽,何况VB的设计缺陷那么多。
但是确实很怀念 VB 的那种简单的感觉,现在的各种 Studio 各种 GUI 的 IDE 庞大笨重的都不想摸,要么黑黢黢的感觉高深莫测,而 html 整界面全靠代码,所见即所得都不知道去哪儿了,何况对初学者友好。
最近发现 VB 有一个传承人 Xojo,好像还可以,没有时间深入进去,毕竟自己有更好的设计 😃