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Every language has its niche (lemmy.world)
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[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

You have absolutely no idea how much business code has been written in VB.

[–] CosmicCleric@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Or COBOL.

No language truly dies, while Capitalism exists.

[–] frezik@midwest.social 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I do know, but that's off to the side of BASIC in general. In fact, VB syntax is barely recognizable as BASIC.