At least QBasic gives you modern-style loops, no requirement for line numbers, etc. It's a good starting point and it won't force bad habits on you. It's reall

At least QBasic gives you modern-style loops, no requirement for line numbers, etc. It's a good starting point and it won't force bad habits on you. It's really too bad that Microsoft never managed to make VB.Net anywhere near as clean as QBasic/QuickBasic or the DOS version of VisualBasic.