We were all a lot younger when that photo was taken 25 years ago! :-)
Happy to answer any questions about the early days of VB. Gary and Frank and Mark and I built most of the "visual" side of VB based on Alan's Tripod prototype. It was called Ruby at the time (no relation to the programming language) and was originally going to be a programmable shell for Windows 3.0 but turned into VB instead.
If you want something specific to blame me for, that would be the VBX interface...
Here's an article with more of the story of how Microsoft turned Ruby into VB:
Happy to answer any questions about the early days of VB. Gary and Frank and Mark and I built most of the "visual" side of VB based on Alan's Tripod prototype. It was called Ruby at the time (no relation to the programming language) and was originally going to be a programmable shell for Windows 3.0 but turned into VB instead.
If you want something specific to blame me for, that would be the VBX interface...
Here's an article with more of the story of how Microsoft turned Ruby into VB:
http://www.forestmoon.com/birthofvb/birthofvb.html