> unwieldy and full of spaghetti code When I was young, I saw the same until I worked with a team of professional devs and the code was clean and performant an

> unwieldy and full of spaghetti code When I was young, I saw the same until I worked with a team of professional devs and the code was clean and performant and easy to get around in. > VB4-based ERP system that was very slow Yep. VB4 was made for the transition from Windows 3.1 to 95. The first effort was good enough but not great. IIRC, it compiled to byte code and then a runtime would interpret it. Once VB5 came out with native compilation, the resulting code became very snappy.