I agree A lot of people are starting and are using VB for it's ease of use, the enormous snippet, tutorial, documentation and help available out there. Microsoft has spend and still is spending tons of money to make this language more and more sophisticated. Just remember Cobol back in the 80ies where programmer sware that this was the only good language for accounting purposes, where is it today? Dead! VisualBasic has been around since 1991, and is stronger today that it never was. You can use it with all office application, and also autocad, sageaccpac to name a few with the derivative VBA. You may not like pizza but it doesn't mean that pizza lover are idiots. asp
Alain St-Pierre