I don't expect this to be posted on HN. I use the blog to teach myself how to write in technical blog English. Let me clarify two things:
- What I meant restricted access to old computers is that it's hard to get old computers that's usable and not being dismantled and scraped. Whenever I searched online it's always from the US or Europe. No local e-commerce market have 486 available.
- The Real Programmer™ is a tongue-in-cheek. I got my first job doing VB 6 stuff . The remark is just to make fun of those who look down on VB6 just because you cane do C or C++.
I'm actually surprised you opted for VS97. I would think, far more developers between '95 and '02 would be more acquainted with VS6. Mostly due to it's exceedingly generous (relative to later) licensing terms and inclusion of VB classic. I don't think I used any Visual Studio environment other than 6 until well into XP and 2000's tenure. It sounds like your own experience was relatively similar.
Borland stuff are great for getting things done and are also what I'm considering if ever I will have time for recreational retro-programming. But for an article, C++ with WinApi would give more to talk about.
I don't expect this to be posted on HN. I use the blog to teach myself how to write in technical blog English. Let me clarify two things:
- What I meant restricted access to old computers is that it's hard to get old computers that's usable and not being dismantled and scraped. Whenever I searched online it's always from the US or Europe. No local e-commerce market have 486 available.
- The Real Programmer™ is a tongue-in-cheek. I got my first job doing VB 6 stuff . The remark is just to make fun of those who look down on VB6 just because you cane do C or C++.