Having spent a long time with VB6 as my go-to language, I get a little upset when people criticize it. It was designed as you say, as a RAD language so that the

Having spent a long time with VB6 as my go-to language, I get a little upset when people criticize it. It was designed as you say, as a RAD language so that the masses could easily knock up front-ends for almost anything, and as machines got faster it's main weakness (it's execution speed) became irrelevant. Yes, the lack of enforced typing, native multi-threading, and OOP finally killed it, but for it's time it was a very useful programming platform. On the upside, if you want a VB6 app to run on Windows now, all you need is MSVBVM60.DLL* in the same folder and it will run, unlike the massive clutch of files that .NET needs... (*This holds true for 16bit VB5 and VB4 as well, on 32 bit systems)