Microsoft plots the end of Visual Basic
I loved VB6.  Of all the languages and IDE's I've ever used, I've never been more efficient in any other one.<p>As long as MS doesn't break my workarounds to run that old IDE or its EXE's, I'm happy.  VB.NET was a great stepping stone, but after switching to C# I never looked back.  The only thing I miss is global functions that don't need a class qualifier in front of them.  And I still find the Edit-and-Continue debugging experience in C# hit-or-miss.