I used to do support for software developers. I used to joke that anyone claiming to be a "Very senior VB developer" was basically saying, "I don't know how co

I used to do support for software developers. I used to joke that anyone claiming to be a "Very senior VB developer" was basically saying, "I don't know how computers work". While it was a funny way of blowing off steam (and indeed senior VB devs didn't seem to know things like calling conventions or static linking), therein lies the miracle of VB. People could make business applications without having to know that stuff. Often enough, they had VB devs for the frontend, and the heavy lifting done in *.dll's written by more hardcore C++ devs. I guess it worked out well enough that way.