Visual Basic is a con !

[Poppa Mintin]

At last, after about twenty years the penny has dropped.

I've just realised why I struggle so much with the Visual Basic part of Visual Studio, which I'm told is actually VB.NET, it's because I'm still trying to program in BASIC.
That's the point isn't it? Visual Basic isn't BASIC... Anyone remember what the acronym BASIC originally stood for? Especially the 'B'.

"Ok guys, we've got this new programming language, we've used as many of the keywords from BASIC as we could so that we can call it Basic, after all... Go with the name you know !"
"If we use lower case letters nobody will notice... With all these other new languages springing up, if we call it Basic we'll sell a whole lot more than if we give it yet another new name".


Author's Note.
A phrase we here in the UK use from time to time is 'The penny has dropped' it means we've been slow to realise a truth.

It most likely stems from the old Victorian arcades of penny slot-machines. Pennies in those days (and up until 1972 in fact) were quite large and relativly heavy, made of a soft copper alloy which would often get damaged, these pennies would often stick in a machine necessitating a thump, or worse, to loosen them before the penny would finally drop allowing the player to play the machine.


Poppa.