The Rise and Fall of Visual Basic
I'll copy one of my recent comments with some minor changes:<p>I still sometimes program in Classic VB, (aka VB6). Each year it is more difficult to install the IDE, but the runtime is still installed by default.<p>It is incredible easy to build a nice one screen application with not very a very complicated background logic. Normal people like a nice graphical interface with a few buttons, and with Classic VB you can create them very easily and iterate and customize the form.<p>My last big problem was that it doesn't have a build in sort function, so you can use a n^2 sort or write a good sorting function by hand :( . When the logic start to be not so easy, there begin to apear problems.<p>--<p>About the article: I agree with most of it.<p>> <i>Also on the big side: There was no more edit-and-continue feature.</i><p>I still miss that when I program in other languages. It kills so many (all!) optimizations possibilities, but it's extremely handy.<p>> <i>VB.Fred and the .NET Solution</i><p>I call it VB# or VB#.Net instead of VB.Fred.