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ijidak

Small correction. If I remember correctly, VB copied Delphi.

That's why it looks so similar.

I still remember the great VB vs Borland Delphi wars of the 90's.

But feel free to correct me if I'm wrong.

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Another input for VisualBASIC was Apple's MacBASIC:

https://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=MacBasic.txt

Interesting... Last time I brought this up there were some very fervent Delphi fans that seemed to agree with you. My first dev environment was VB, so I am probably biased.

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