Visual Basic clearly seems to have been aiming at QBasic/QuickBasic compatibility, in any case. For example, the CALL keyword in QBasic is almost useless: It a

Visual Basic clearly seems to have been aiming at QBasic/QuickBasic compatibility, in any case. For example, the CALL keyword in QBasic is almost useless: It allows you to call procedures without a DECLARE statement, but DECLARE statements are automatically generated on save anyway. In Visual Basic, even in version 1.0, it's completely useless because DECLARE statements are not required anymore, but both CALL and DECLARE are still in there in the language, presumably for compatibility.