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Visual Basic
Visual Basic is a powerful tool for day-to-day Windows application
development, and it's also used as part of ASP(.NET) for server-side scripting on
pimarily Windows-based servers. On a modern PC VB
applications run very fast, and developing applications in VB is easier and
less error-prone than if coding in e.g. C or C++, and is rather more comparable with C# and Java. The quick turn-around from idea to
coding to running applications is also a major plus.
It shall be noted that Visual Basic has developed rather haphazardly and
even with lack of backwards compatibility. There are issues with porting VB6 and earlier to VB.NET, but over time Microsoft has realized this is a big issue and partly provided remedies. If you don't have the baggage of using older
versions of VB there should be no problem starting with VB.NET. In that case though
you should also consider C#, which has Java-like syntax.
Knowing both C-like syntax (as used in C, C++, C#, Java, PHP etc) and VB language syntax is important for writing Web, mobile and
Windows productivity applications.
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