# Drag-n-Drop Programming: Was VBasic First?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drag-n-drop-programming-was-vbasic-first/55243>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [February 20, 2001, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drag-n-drop-programming-was-vbasic-first/55243 "2001-02-20T19:55:21Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
**Page:** 1

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![DougC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7feea3/32.png) [@DougC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DougC)\
**Post date:** [February 20, 2001, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drag-n-drop-programming-was-vbasic-first/55243/1 "2001-02-20T19:55:21Z")

</div>

- 
  - 
    - I saw this mentioned somewhere but don’t know that it’s true. Is it so? - MC

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Zot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e79b87/32.png) [@Zot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zot)\
**Post date:** [February 20, 2001, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drag-n-drop-programming-was-vbasic-first/55243/2 "2001-02-20T21:24:42Z")

</div>

HyperCard on the Mac came before Visual Basic. It was released in 1987 or 1988.

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Arnold\_Winkelried](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)\
**Post date:** [February 20, 2001, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drag-n-drop-programming-was-vbasic-first/55243/3 "2001-02-20T22:31:35Z")

</div>

I remember back in the good old days when you had to drag a box of punched cards into the computer room and drop them into the hopper. That was in 1962 I believe.