"visual basic was really fucking weird in hindsight… in that there was hardly any learning curve but you could make things that looked like Real Programs" +++++ pic.twitter.com/8PuzAQ54JP
— Omar Rizwan (@rsnous) August 2, 2019
Visual Basic programs were very much real programs, and VB is a true programming language by any definition one cares to apply. It is a high-level one, sure, but so are almost all languages anyone uses today.
Not sure why people insist only that systems-level (capable) languages (C, C++, Rust, etc.) are “real” programming languages, but it’s just not true. Any language where you can tell the damn computer what to do is a real programming language. There are no exceptions to this.