Classic Visual Basic

Visual Basic (VB), sometimes referred to as Classic Visual Basic, is a third-generation programming language based on BASIC, as well as an associated integrated development environment (IDE). Visual Basic was developed by Microsoft for Windows, and is known for supporting rapid application development (RAD) of graphical user interface (GUI) applications, event-driven programming, and both consumption and development of components via the Component Object Model (COM) technology. Wikipedia

Created Year: 1991
Developed by: Microsoft
Aliases: VB, Visual Basic

Wikidata: Q2378

Influenced: Basic For Qt • C# • Gambas • Phoenix Object Basic • PowerBASIC • Visual Basic .NET • Visual Basic for Applications

Programming paradigms: procedural programming • object-oriented programming • event-driven programming

Language types: procedural programming language • event-driven programming language • object-based language

Module HelloWorld
    Sub Main()
        MsgBox("Hello World")
    End Sub
End Module