As a kid, Visual Basic allowed me to write my first shareware, ship it and get sales (not a huge amount, but I think I made about 6000 USD total, which was grea

As a kid, Visual Basic allowed me to write my first shareware, ship it and get sales (not a huge amount, but I think I made about 6000 USD total, which was great as an high school student). I'll agree that it was not a great tool, there were many limitations, very stupid bugs (Visual Basic had very weird behavior in non English Windows) but it got the job done and introduced me to programming.