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Article: Visual Basic's role. (Microsoft Corp.'s application development software) (Field Report)
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- Software Magazine
- Article date:
- February 1, 1994
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Microsoft unites office via hot tool
Since its first introduction, Microsoft Corp.'s Visual Basic software has made surprising, and steady, inroads. Many insist that it is underpowered for enterprise-wide tasks, but at the desktop level, at least, the product has saved the Basic language from the programmer's scrap heap.
Visual Basic is designed to serve as Redmond, Wash.-based Microsoft's formal macro language for implementing business logic. And it has spawned competitors. For example, Computer Associates International Inc., Islandia, N.Y., recently released CA-Realizer 2.0, a visual programming environment for business users that includes a ...