>We have discussed the reason why VB is so popular. Here is a basic outline of some of the reasons. There may be many more that others would wish to add.
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>1. Bill Gates first company supplied Basic on a computer board for the S-100 computer (1975) and he made money.
>2. Basic has a special place in the life of Bill Gates so “Visual Basic” was developed by Microsoft.
>3. Selling Visual Basic and SQL Server produces a much higher profit than selling Visual FoxPro by itself.
>4. As long as there is a Microsoft there will be a product somehow called “Basic” such as Visual Basic or Visual Basic .NET.
Basically, I wish to add that (in my understanding) VB was the very first IDE for Windows. Previously, programmers that programmed for Windows basically had to write text files (typically, in C or C++), where they invoked Windows API functions, specified coordinates as numbers, and other relatively detailed work.
Hilmar.
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