The Rise and Fall of Visual Basic
I'll copy one of my recent comments with some minor changes: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.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.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.--About the article: I agree with most of it.> Also on the big side: There was no more edit-and-continue feature.I still miss that when I program in other languages. It kills so many (all!) optimizations possibilities, but it's extremely handy.> VB.Fred and the .NET SolutionI call it VB# or VB#.Net instead of VB.Fred.