In terms of data structures, absolutely. Thing is, for a lot of applications you don't need all those extra features. Lots of apps are boiled down to "The user

In terms of data structures, absolutely. Thing is, for a lot of applications you don't need all those extra features. Lots of apps are boiled down to "The user inputs this, I do some crunching, they get this output." Whether your ints are signed or not doesn't matter because you're only counting from 1 to 100 anyway. One thing it did do very well was to make string manipulation and conversion simple. Apparently VB does support unsigned data types in some version: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/visual-basic/programming-guide/language-features/data-types/numeric-data-types https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/visual-basic/program...