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geoelectric on April 19, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: PowerBuilder History, Powersoft History (2004)

While I'll definitely give PB credit for being one of the first, Delphi and VB gave it a run for its money in the custom business software space.

eweise on April 19, 2018 [–]

Maybe but Powerbuilder's components made it far more productive in building business software than VB.

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