If you want BASIC as a scripting language, and VB isn't the answer, then you can get the remarkably capable BBC BASIC for many platforms for not much money at h

If you want BASIC as a scripting language, and VB isn't the answer, then you can get the remarkably capable BBC BASIC for many platforms for not much money at http://www.bbcbasic.co.uk/bbcbasic.html http://www.bbcbasic.co.uk/bbcbasic.html. A couple of years ago I got an software exception request (regulated industry...don't ask) from a developer who wanted permission to use this. No one had any idea what to make of it, so it bubbled up to me. Turns out the developer was British, started out on BBC BASIC, and even though nothing in the app was BASIC, he'd written an amazingly comprehensive testing scaffold in it. I granted the request on the condition that they train at least 2 other devs to maintain it. It was impressive enough I bought my own copy and used it for various scripting tasks on Windows until PowerShell became what the cool kids used.