I think one element that got lost in all this is that BASIC was originally
designed as an entry level teaching tool with a secondary goal of being an
easy-to-use programming language for the "masses."

VB is oriented toward quick-and-dirty programming for business.  It is
supposed to be a low skill, super-rapid development environment for modest
projects and production of GUI interfaces.

For these applications C++ and C are way too expensive media for
development.

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GNU-Linux-BSD <liberty ware product> all lack the high (COBOL) and low
(VB-esque) development environments suitable for cost-conscious
business-oriented development projects.

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> \_ Yes, but, although you think it is bad, you learned it, right?
> You didn't
> \_ say, "I'm not learning VB because MS designed a crappy language." ?
>
> Yeah, I did.  I've got scars from learning it, though.
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> David
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