I have written small kid's experimentations in QBasic, and it was fun at the age of 13, but then when I had to use VBA at the age of 28 after considerable amoun

I have written small kid's experimentations in QBasic, and it was fun at the age of 13, but then when I had to use VBA at the age of 28 after considerable amount of experience in C# (among others), it was painful. Is this because of elitism? No, it is because VBA has some terrible properties, which are not true for VB.Net. VB.Net is mostly OK, I just don't use it. I'm also glad they keep that product alive, because in addition to the many positive aspects meantioned in the comments it makes sure that the CLR evolution takes into consideration the aspects needed for a more broad variety of languages.