My first commercial progs were written with Visual Basic 6. I say commercial, when in fact, I wrote them to help me in my salaried job.We had a UNIX server that managed the sales and customers which was a real pain when we wanted to enhance things. Normally, from a PC, you simply export the data into csv format and import into Excel (or, nowadays, Pages). But from a UNIX box, not so straight forward. So I got the UNIX guy to write an export script that created my “csv” data, which was then copied onto a floppy and loaded onto my PC.
Then, using the magic of VB6, I wrote a program that determined how overdue each customer was and formatted a letter accordingly to be printed and sent out - all with the click of 1 button. It was horrible code (literally all in the button_click function) but I was self-taught.
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