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		kwhitefoot on Feb 20, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Things that used to be hard and are now easy I wrote plenty of GUI applications for IBM PCs in the '80s. It wasn't difficult with Turbo Pascal.

throwthere on Feb 20, 2022 | [–]

Visual Basic 6.0 chiming in from the 90s.

ChrisMarshallNY on Feb 20, 2022 | [–]

When Turbo Pascal came to the Mac, it made life MUCH easier. I started with MPW.

What was always difficult, was the toolkit. Apple had MacApp (but not when I started). In fact, the original Adobe Photoshop was a Pascal/MacApp (1.0b9) app.

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