[floki999]

Great to see several articles on Basic and Visual Basic in the space of a few days. I think VB and VB.Net (Pre WPF) as well as the ubiquitous VBA were very popular with that population of coders that is often ignored I.e. folks whose primary job is not programming but need to develop tools to facilitate their job. Many of these folks live on trading floors and investment teams, where either they cannot rely on timely solutions from their IT group, or simply smaller shops that have no developers on-hand. Many such folks have switched to Python, which unfortunately lacks easy GUI design tools. I had a lot of fun with VB6 and VB.NET, which I used to code quant apps, relying on compiled matlab DLL’s for the computational bits.