The Rise and Fall of Visual Basic

Instead, VB became famous for a legendary feature called edit-and-continue, which allowed developers to run their programs, find problems, fix them, and then keep going with the new code. By the release of VB 6 — the last version of classic Visual Basic — it was estimated that there were ten times more coders writing in VB than in the unforgiving C++ language. It wasn’t long before a group of influential VB developers had christened Microsoft’s new programming environment as VB.Fred to emphasize that, whatever it was, this new language wasn’t Visual Basic.

Source: medium.com