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The increasing popularity and sophistication of graphical user interfaces (GUIs) led Microsoft to introduce Visual Basic (not spelled with capitals)
in 1991. Tom Button, Group Product Manager for Applications Programmability at Microsoft, headed the team that produced QuickBASIC and QBASIC.
This same group developed Visual Basic by combining Ruby with QuickBASIC.
On June 15 th 2001, a page on Microsoft's Web site entitled "Visual Basic 10th Birthday" included the following paragraph, entitled "Thunder".
Initially, Visual Basic 1.0 was intended to be a very tactical product. Microsoft had several initiatives in development leading up to
Visual Basic 1.0, all of which were intended to develop into long-term, strategic, graphical, object oriented programming tools. As is
typical with version 1.0 products, however, the Visual Basic 1.0 product team was forced to cut features from its long list of ideas in
order to actually deliver the product to market. As a result, the first Visual Basic offering included little more than the Embedded Basic
technology that had originally shipped in Microsoft QuickBasic 4.0 (Microsoft's threaded p-code and incremental compiler) and a simple
shell design tool originally licensed for but never used in Windows 3.0. Approximately 12 months after development on version 1.0 began,
Microsoft released this "placeholder" development tool, code-named "Thunder".
The Visual Basic (VB) system is a fourth generation programming system which produces much of the code itself as the programmer designs
the interface for his or her application. Microsoft surveys in the late 1990's showed that roughly two thirds of all business applications
programming on PCs was being done in Visual Basic.
At one time Visual Basic could produce code for both DOS and Windows applications. Today, however, Microsoft considers DOS to be obsolete
and promotes the Windows environment exclusively. QBASIC continued to ship on the Windows CD-ROM up to (at least) version 98SE and so, at
the time of writing, may still be available or usable.
When Visual Basic 1.0 was released, Bill Gates, Chairman and CEO of Microsoft, described it as 'awesome'. Steve Gibson in Infoworld said
Visual Basic is a 'stunning new miracle' and would 'dramatically change the way people feel about and use [Microsoft] Windows.' Stewart
Alsop was quoted in the New York Times as saying Visual Basic is 'the perfect programming environment for the 1990's'.
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