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Visual Basic Dead

Visual Basic
KindProgramming language
Appeared1991
StatusDead
CreatorMicrosoft / Alan Cooper (Tripod prototype)
FamilyBASIC
Also known asVB, VB6
Sourceen.wikipedia.org ↗

Drag a button, double-click, write the handler — the RAD tool that taught a generation Windows programming; retired in 2008, mourned ever since.

Succeeded by VB.NET
Created by Alan Cooper
Descendants VBScript VB.NET

Microsoft's Visual Basic (1991) — BASIC plus drag-and-drop forms — made Windows programming accessible to millions: draw a button, write its event, ship.\n\nVB6 (1998) was the peak; VB.NET replaced it in 2001, and the classic line died in 2008. It remains the most-loved 'easy' language and the archetype of RAD.

Sources

  1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_Basic_(classic)