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		megaremote on June 24, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Rise and Fall of Visual Basic You couldn't compile it into an app. So you had to distribute the source code. This meant it was a dead-end for anything serious.

jmkni on June 24, 2019 [–]

VB6? You could definitely compile VB6 code into an application and distribute it without the source code!

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