Right, you could do all that with VB but most people didn't. Exception handling was crap in VB (no call stack) so we wrote a Visual Studio Macro that would go

Right, you could do all that with VB but most people didn't. Exception handling was crap in VB (no call stack) so we wrote a Visual Studio Macro that would go and edit every single method to add "On Error Goto" with a block at the end of the method to automatically add the method name to a homemade exception object so that when there was an error we could actually tell where it was coming from. So you _can_ do that too in VB but it wasn't pretty.