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You should think about what the alternative was at the time: Mostly C/C++

VB6 you would have connected to the db by the end of the day. C/C++ you're still trying to handle WM_ERASEBKGND

Borland was the alternative. You could throw together a C++ database application in a day. And if you used Delphi you even could not justify a coffee break by the long compile time.

Well you'd probably be using MFC which handled most of the windows messages.

Or wasting time figuring out whether you should switch to ATL

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