I cackled! Thank you for pointing that out. Alas, I must confess that I have written Visual Basic (VBscript) code in Emacs. A while back I was screwing around

I cackled! Thank you for pointing that out. Alas, I must confess that I have written Visual Basic (VBscript) code in Emacs. A while back I was screwing around with a project which attempted to generate, via the Windows speech synthesis API, output vaguely resembling SHODAN from the System Shock games (example: [1]). The most I can say for it is that I didn't entirely fail; despite having access to a quite good female voice (NeoSpeech "Kate"), and despite SAPI 5 offering what I found a surprising degree of flexibility, there's only so much you can do with it; I got closer than I expected, but not close enough to think it worth releasing. [a] In any case, VBScript is the handiest way I could find to screw around with SAPI, and it turns out there is a Visual Basic mode for Emacs [2]; I found it to be remarkably not bad. Nothing could make working with Visual Basic other than painful, but Emacs comes as close as anything else I've ever used. [1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5iZMD_eCpEo http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5iZMD_eCpEo [2] http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/visual-basic-mode.el http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/visual-basic-mode.el [a] I've just unearthed it, and it hasn't yet succumbed to bit rot; maybe I'll throw it up on my Github account just for the hell of it.