I’d bet there’s more than a few people here in respectable places now that learnt to code through VB6, Delphi, python, Perl, PHP to write rats and exploit code.
Yep in highschool it was all VB6 and back orfice shenanigans
it was mainly delphi7, because the executables didn't require suspicious dll dependencies. If you statically linked midaslib, msvcrt was all you needed.
Ahh the good old days. Learned to program with VB6 writing progz for AOL.
tcl scripting for eggdrop bots too :)
A “fell off the truck” version of Delphi :)
Marco Arment (Overcast, Instapaper, Tumblr) on AOL proggies, most of which were built on popular VB6 libraries made for that purpose: http://articles.marco.org/44