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Why not Visual Basic?
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>>Bill Gates started Microsoft with two products, DOS and BASIC, which he wrote. Do you suppose he might like BASIC a little bit? :) :)
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>Actually, Microsoft got it's start entirely with BASIC, well before the days of the 8086/8088 and the IBM PC; Microsoft bought the first release of DOS from SCP, and ran from there with it. Prior to PCDOS, Microsoft was almost entirely a language house.

I'm gonna shut up now.

;)

Cheers,
Rich.
Rich Addison, Micro Vane, Inc., Kalamazoo, MI
Relax, don't worry, have a homebrew.
- Charlie Papazian, The New Complete Joy of Home Brewing
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