> I never fully understood why this programming paradigm died off.
First and foremost -- the world wide web.
Suddenly, we had a much more flexible way to deliver applications.
If I remember it correctly, Visual Basic couldn't write to STDOUT -- so it couldn't be used as a scripting language for the web.
Microsoft tried to push VBScript as an alternative, but it was linked to their expensive ecosystem, while LAMP (Linux Apache, MySQL Perl and PHP) was free.
First and foremost -- the world wide web.
Suddenly, we had a much more flexible way to deliver applications.
If I remember it correctly, Visual Basic couldn't write to STDOUT -- so it couldn't be used as a scripting language for the web.
Microsoft tried to push VBScript as an alternative, but it was linked to their expensive ecosystem, while LAMP (Linux Apache, MySQL Perl and PHP) was free.