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Totally!

Felt like it was a similar "magic" to the older skool BASIC of the previous era.

Also:

Linus Torvalds allegedly said:

"I personally believe that Visual Basic did more for programming than Object-Oriented Languages did. Yet people laugh at VB and say its a bad language, and theyve been talking about OO languages for decades. And no, Visual Basic wasnt a great language, but I think the easy database interfaces in VB were fundamentally more important."



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