1994-05-04 - Visual Basic (yes, Basic!), and “VBX” tools

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From: hughes@ah.com (Eric Hughes)
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Message Hash: d46206e9d13a7936b92720baa121debbfdcac0d638b15343c68f5fe65342523e
Message ID: <9405042036.AA02039@ah.com>
Reply To: <199405041811.LAA09467@netcom.com>
UTC Datetime: 1994-05-04 20:38:45 UTC
Raw Date: Wed, 4 May 94 13:38:45 PDT

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From: hughes@ah.com (Eric Hughes)
Date: Wed, 4 May 94 13:38:45 PDT
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Visual Basic (yes, Basic!), and "VBX" tools
In-Reply-To: <199405041811.LAA09467@netcom.com>
Message-ID: <9405042036.AA02039@ah.com>
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>[...] the
>fortuitous decision to incoporate Windows "foundation classes" (a C++
>notion, of course) into Visual Basic

Classes are C++.  Foundation classes are Microsoft Foundation Classes,
are just a large library that Microsoft wrote which is also included
in the C++ compiler products.

Eric

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