In a few more days I'll be 26. I started programming with Visual Basic 6, since then I have moved on. From time to time though, I can't help but try it out again now and then. I've seen many programmers start out with it and move on through the field into other languages. Many interesting projects have been made in Visual Basic 6 alone. Everything from private server software, to game cheating tools (packet injections), online rpg game engines, and so on and so forth (and throw in malware in there somewhere too). I am grateful for Visual Basic despite having moved from it, I know many despised it, and some of that group once coded in it, but I have to appreciate my roots despite the good or the bad I still learned programming through VB6. Thank you to whoever has ever worked on Visual Basic 6. Happy belated birthday as well.
I'm 5 years older. I started in Qbasic and moved to VB4 or 5 pretty soon after that. I've left them behind, but I've got a similar feeling about those languages.
These days, I guess I'd do some TK thing in Python if I was going for speed of development, but that seems a few steps backwards from what I could do (almost) 20 years, in a few ways.
