But VB ISN'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's a legacy connecti

But VB ISN'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's a legacy connection, and C is supported by the compiler, but the actual code doesn'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. As for python, I believe you can do division just by using the / operator, just like most other languages. Unless I misunderstood what you meant by "proper" division. Even so, what's so bad about having to load a library to do division? It's not great, sure, but it's not awful, and it's a good deal better than the many sins of BASIC.