VB was a godsend for me. Despite being a very capable DOS and embedded/RTOS developer, the learning curve for the ugly tools and API's for Win3.1 development w

VB was a godsend for me. Despite being a very capable DOS and embedded/RTOS developer, the learning curve for the ugly tools and API's for Win3.1 development was more than I wanted to handle. It was magical how easy it was to build little tools and line-of-business apps in VB. And after eventually learning MSVC and MFC/ATL, I was even more impressed with how easy VB was compared to that. But .Net killed VB because C# was enough for both noobs and for real programmers.