Before discussing BASIC and Microsoft’s various versions of the language, I thought it would be fun to first examine how easy it is to recreate hello, world in Visual Basic, my favorite ...

A Visual Basic program is built up from standard building blocks. A solution comprises one or more projects. A project in turn can contain one or more assemblies. Each assembly is compiled from one or ...

Visual Basic .Net might not be the coolest programming language to know, but it remains popular and has now reached its highest position on the Tiobe index of top programming languages. In the ...

In computer science, functional programming is a programming paradigm—a style of building the structure and elements of computer programs—that treats computation as the evaluation of mathematical ...

But first, a quick and sometimes personal tour of what I think of as Visual Basic’s family tree. WordBASIC In 1992, my wife and I were planning a move to the Phoenix area so that so I could go ...