In my youth, I learned basic then Pascal before taking compsci in high school. Despite the fact that I was confident in both, your course supported both languag

In my youth, I learned basic then Pascal before taking compsci in high school. Despite the fact that I was confident in both, your course supported both languages, but by far the "not a programmer" types chose VB and that was their speed and it's was fine. For those of us that really enjoyed programming, we learned and loved Pascal/Delphi more, but I'd argue most of us transitioned to C/java afterwards. Delphi took a middle ground approach that wasn't entirely successful to either of these groups. I still think the biggest mistake MS made with their tooling was burying VB6+ and replaced it with VB.net. They may have made VB a "real" function extensive language, but I think a bunch of soft-programming people just left and never went back. C# ate any of those that would've used VB.net in this way anyways IMHO.