[kgwxd]

General purpose programming language is general purpose programming language. There's nothing unique about VB other than it's kinda looks like English to the reader. Just the reader. Yes, the programmer is often the reader, but the reader is often not the programmer. The English-like reading gets people over one relatively small barrier to entry which is "this looks foreign to me, I'll never understand it". Day 2 of VB is "this looks like English, but it's clearly not". At that point, it should be obvious that the language is optimized for the beginner, not the intermediate and certainly not the expert. When most people can qualify as intermediate in any language in less than a year, it should be obvious the design choices are terribly skewed in the wrong direction.