[bitwize]

VB was based on QuickBASIC which introduced structured programming constructs and made line numbers optional. Many BASIC statements, such as PRINT and INPUT, had to be eliminated or changed because they were meaningless in the GUI world. But the fundamentals of Microsoft BASIC as it existed in the early 90s are still there.

[Dwedit]

VB does have PRINT, it causes text to be drawn on the form. It's not very useful, but it is there.

[bitwize]

I must've been confusing it with Access VBA, which doesn't appear to support PRINT except in the debugger. Print # is supported for file I/O however.