But VB ISN&#x27;T BASIC. As in, at all. It may have started out that way, but VB has as much of a relation to BASIC as modern C++ has to C: There&#x27;s a legacy connection, and C is supported by the compiler, but the actual code doesn&#x27;t look or feel like C in any way. The BASIC we talk about here is Unstructured and Structured BASIC, which bears very little resemblance to VB, and has many failings.<p>As for python, I believe you can do division just by using the &#x2F; operator, just like most other languages. Unless I misunderstood what you meant by &quot;proper&quot; division. Even so, what&#x27;s so bad about having to load a library to do division? It&#x27;s not great, sure, but it&#x27;s not awful, and it&#x27;s a good deal better than the many sins of BASIC.