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VB.NET is used a lot in life sciences for data analysis by people that know some programming, given that many places have Windows only desktop policy and the data readers happen to only have DLL or COM APIs as programming interface.

The medicine you might take, has been probably measured DRC reaction curves in some VB.NET application.

It is the surviving BASIC, the evolution of QuickBasic and Visual Basic into the .NET environment.

Regarding the 80's BASIC, GW-BASIC was probably the last one of such type of unstructured line numbered BASIC.