With VB,Windows application development was no longer restricted to a privileged few. Anybody with moderate programming capabilities was able to develop a Windows application by dragging and dropping controls onto a form. In contrast to the more prevalent C and C++ programmers who wrote obscure code,VB programmers concentrated on writing applications that were meant to be prototypes. It is perhaps this ease of use and simplicity of language that gave VB the name of “toy” language. This is not the case anymore.
VB has come a long way. Since version 1.0, it has evolved from a toy language to a full-fledged Object-Oriented programming language. Today, with VB you are able to do almost everything possible with other programming languages. VB is finally a true-blue Object-Oriented language.