Don't forget that most of those VB apps you've seen were hacked together by amateurs, engineers, business and finance people, not professional programmers. It w

Don't forget that most of those VB apps you've seen were hacked together by amateurs, engineers, business and finance people, not professional programmers. It was great for their productivity. They automated their work, and they couldn't have done it in C. BASIC = Beginners' All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code