>VB was basically the MS response to Borland's Delphi,
No, that wasn't the timeline. Visual Basic came out in 1991. Borland Delphi was +4 years later in 1995. (Borland Turbo Pascal for Windows was 1991 but Microsoft VB's internal product development codename "Thunder" was already started in 1990.)
No, that wasn't the timeline. Visual Basic came out in 1991. Borland Delphi was +4 years later in 1995. (Borland Turbo Pascal for Windows was 1991 but Microsoft VB's internal product development codename "Thunder" was already started in 1990.)
Visual Basic (especially the GUI forms IDE paradigm and VBX components) was built on earlier ideas in 1988 by Alan Cooper : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Cooper#Visual_Basic