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I think the title is a bit leading calling him a "fan" of VB. I have the exact same views as Linus in that it was a great language to learn programming than teaching OOP to beginners with silly real world examples (Cars, anyone?)

I think what Linus wanted to highlight was that VB was a great environment to quickly get results in the real world, something which I think he highly regards. It might not be the most elegant language to program in but it had an incredible IDE, tons of prebuilt components and looked exactly as it was developed after it was deployed.