About the difference between Visual Basic and Basic

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I was told that:

Visual Basic is the compiler...

...and Basic is the language

After all, in visual studio, I am editing the Basic or Visual Basic language?

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Your statement is correct according to the wikipedia and tag wiki Vb

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Visual Basic (abbreviated VB) is a programming language produced by Microsoft, and is an integral part of the Microsoft Visual Studio package. Its latest version is part of the Visual Studio package. NET, aimed at applications .Net. Its previous version was part of Microsoft Visual Studio 6.0, still widely used today by legacy applications...

An improvement of BASIC, the language is driven by events (Event driven), and also has a fully graphic integrated development environment (IDE - Integrated Development Environment), greatly facilitating the construction of the application interface (GUI - Graphical User Interface). The name Visual Basic, is derived from:

Basic - the Programming Language

Visual - the EX Package Name: Visual studio (Visual C++, Visual C#, Visual Basic . NET)

  • Cool, BASIC was Microsoft since its creation?

  • BASIC is not microsoft as far as I could search Visual Basic yes

  • Ah, yes, thank you.

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