There's actually a great underlying point here, to make up for this comment's lackluster delivery thereof. If anything, Visual Basic is a great example of some

There's actually a great underlying point here, to make up for this comment's lackluster delivery thereof. If anything, Visual Basic is a great example of something that ended (a significant part of) programming. I don't know too many people these days writing WIN32 C GUIs any more, thanks to my above-described forces of abstraction. Sure, VB wasn't the best abstraction for graphical user interfaces -- it looks like web was the real winner here, but GUI programming has been "abstracted out" or automated, if you will.