>>Actually, I think that he and Paul had completed it (the Altair tape BASIC).
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>>He's never hidden his love for the language. More than ten years ago I read an article/interview where he said that BASIC was going to be the common macro language for all Microsoft applications. That was long before VB and before MS bought Fox.
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>And that is totally cool. VB is a very good language - and at least - MS has established a standard - which is good for all of us.

It is amazing how far MS has taken VB. When I studied Basic on an Apple II Plus (grade 11 Computer Science in 1983) it was clearly seen as a stepping stone to languages like Pascal and C. This was driven home by the name of the language. BASIC - Beginners All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code.

My, how far it has come. :-)