| Oh, the memories, I loved VB6. I remember when my father had to use medicall services billing program supplies by a natinal health insurance company, and he had some problems with it. Luckily, I was a student in Bucharest and I went to their headquarters to play middleman between my father and their "informatician". This "informatician" was the sole architect, UX designer, developer, tester, release manager for this program -- VB6+ access. I sort of helped him debug the code, he built me a special version and handed it to me on a CD. The program was ok UX wise and blisteringly fast.
Years later, they hired this corrupt company that built software for the State and produced a horrendous program, that took terrible and just the startup took 15 minutes (parsing hunonguous XML and inserting it line by line into a local sql database, as far as I remember reading the logs). The contract ran into HUNDREDS or millions of euros.
Granted, the scope of the program was a bit wider. |