Visual Basic
Microsoft's event-driven RAD language — introduced millions of developers to Windows programming in the 1990s and 2000s.
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since 1991
oopimperativeevent-driven
Visual Basic’s drag-and-drop form designer and approachable syntax made Windows application development accessible to non-specialists. VB.NET is the modern evolution running on .NET, fully interoperable with C#. Despite being eclipsed by C#, there are billions of lines of VB.NET in enterprise applications and Office add-ins that continue to run in production.