“Father of Visual Basic Begs: Stop the Insanity!”

Posted on July 20th, 2004 by Sacha Chua

In his book, “The Inmates Are Running the Asylum: Why High-Tech Products
Drive Us Crazy and How to Restore the Sanity,” Visual Basic architect Alan
Cooper argues that software has become excessively and unreasonably
complicated because programmers and engineers are designing it for their …
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