Visual Basic 6 (VB6)

Don't do these things. These are the top things that will make a program not be as good as it could be. Don't do these and you will be ahead of what a lot of programs do.

Microsoft spent many years trying convince the public that Visual Basic was not a illegitimate programming language. Once people signed on and began developing full business applications, Microsoft decided to go a different direction and is now spending all their energy trying to kill the child they created.