I liked VB6 when I first tried it. You drew a UI, then you double-clicked the components to get a menu of stub code-blocks. It was good for making UIs.
Then suddenly there were masses of weird, undocumented APIs, including APIs from any application installed on the machine. Unfortunately I was making my living from VB6 at the time, so I had to learn it all. (And then MS withdrew support for VB6, forcing me to learn a new trade, which is only one driver of my animus against MS)
Long ago I owned a Sinclair QL. That toy had a rather nice BASIC editor. I think their dialect was called QBasic. You selected a function in the left pane, and it appeared for editing in the right pane. (I also loved that it used a 68K processor; that chip had a sweet instruction set)
Then suddenly there were masses of weird, undocumented APIs, including APIs from any application installed on the machine. Unfortunately I was making my living from VB6 at the time, so I had to learn it all. (And then MS withdrew support for VB6, forcing me to learn a new trade, which is only one driver of my animus against MS)
Long ago I owned a Sinclair QL. That toy had a rather nice BASIC editor. I think their dialect was called QBasic. You selected a function in the left pane, and it appeared for editing in the right pane. (I also loved that it used a 68K processor; that chip had a sweet instruction set)