With "i don't think so" you meant the part about "extended over time to add more stuff"? Even VB1 worked by compiling the statements to bytecode, changing that

With "i don't think so" you meant the part about "extended over time to add more stuff"? Even VB1 worked by compiling the statements to bytecode, changing that to emit machine language instead wasn't such a big leap that they'd need to make a new compiler. It was an important change (the perception of which was most likely also magnified by the new IDE UI) but it was still an evolution over VB4.