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BASIC was already very popular before VB.

• dredmorbius 7y ago
  As a business programming language? It was used in teaching (I used it as such, at the time), and by hobbyists. VB allowed creating whole business systems in conjunction with Microsoft applications. Which to my recollection was quite a step beyond. Earlier business office products might have been based on WP or Lotus macros, possibly DBase. VB unified much of that.