Note that Lazarus (http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/ http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/) (Delphi clone, based on Free Pascal) works today and is somewhat like

Note that Lazarus (http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/ http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/) (Delphi clone, based on Free Pascal) works today and is somewhat like that. And it's Open Source and cross-platform (works on Windows, Linux, MacOSX). But maybe it's still not simple enough. Also, Object Pascal is probably harder to learn than VB6, esp for a beginner. I also started mostly with VB6 and still somewhat miss it... Nowadays I mostly use C++ and Python on Linux or MacOSX and have tried many many other languages in the meanwhile. But I still miss VB6 somehow.