It was the good old days. At the time, it fulfilled expectations. Much more accurate than a slide rule and back of an envelope (provided you understood the limitations of fp numbers). Now, most of what I see is just packaging and hype. Things being done, just so you can, adding nothing of real value. Take this forum, for example. (The actual screen appearance) Look how the various title bars, or whatever they are called, are shaded. No real purpose for that but in some opinions it looks better than plain colours. But go to attach: That area looks medieval, and functions in the same way. Does it actually work any better for the user compared to what was around ten years ago, say? Who came up with the idea for a background image for the desktop? It just prevents clearly seeing the icons.
I came here, because i was looking for something as simple as visual basic for dos. Got to firefly, then this wfbe. That was after many years of frustration with visual studio, c#, and I'd put years of work into c#. You youngsters don't know how good you got it, in my younger days we had to file lumps of germanium to make our own transistors XD.
