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by vic20forever 3405 days ago
In 1994, I was looking at languages for a Windows GUI project, and I narrowed my options down to Borland ObjectVision (a sort-of "predecessor" to Delphi) and Visual Basic 3.0. I went with VB3 because the userbase was larger, but I've always wondered how my career would have played out if I'd chosen the other path.
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atombender 3405 days ago
You're probably thinking of Object Windows Library (OWL) [1], a C++ library that was available to both Turbo Pascal for Windows and Borland C++, and which was briefly available for other platforms, including several Unix variants.

Borland also had the older Turbo Vision toolkit, but that was for MS-DOS. OWL was designed a very similar class hiearchy.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object_Windows_Library

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jacmoe 3405 days ago
Please search before jumping to conclusions: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ObjectVision

:)

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