I just want to add that as popular/cool as Visual Basic became, the first few years it was derided by most “real” developers as a crappy shortcut. PowerBuilder

I just want to add that as popular/cool as Visual Basic became, the first few years it was derided by most “real” developers as a crappy shortcut. PowerBuilder was king for awhile and even Delphi was ahead until VB 6.0 crushed all the competition.