Description
WhippleWare In 1991, a guy named Ben Whipple used a then-new computer language to write software for his doctoral research at MIT. Ben was mostly delighted with the language (Microsoft Visual Basic aka VB) but was frustrated with certain aspects of it. He created an optimization tool for his own use that went on to win numerous awards and sold tens of thousands of copies. He expanded the product line with other programming tools, and rode high on the hog while VB and Windows desktop programming grew explosively in the 1990s. In 1993, 3 companies' products received Editor's Choice Awards from the premier industry magazine, VB Programmers Journal; Microsoft, Borland... and WhippleWare! It was great fun while it lasted.
Then along came the world wide web, slowly deflating the VB balloon as Microsoft's efforts to reposition VB for programming the web proved too little too late. VB didn't die (there's still an awful lot of Windows desktops out there) but the growth and excitement in the programming world moved to web-oriented markup languages, scripting languages, and Java. Many companies selling VB tools disappeared. Always conservatively managed, WhippleWare did not, though Ben did stop spending big bucks on advertising.
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