Where is the Basic, in Visual Basic?

[Niya]

Since .Net has roughly the same learning curve as C++, C#, Java (or so I am told), what exactly it the *point* of VB.Net??? You certainly don't see a beginners language anymore, and I can't see people that need to do casual programming to support their primary activities (I have CNC LASER and robotics control that I have to accomplish, hardware AND software), being all that happy about dropping everything for a few weeks, in order to learn .Net in order to write a small program or two every year.

That is one lulzy statement. Don't kid yourself, VB.Net is no harder to learn than VB6 and most importantly, there isn't anything that can be done in VB6 that cannot be done much more easily in VB.Net with the exception of socket programming and even then, the VB6 Winsock control is an insult to network programming and should never have been created.