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 To anybody who wants to see Inform examples: are you interested in Inform 6 or Inform 7? They're quite different languages. —[[User:Underscore|Underscore]] 12:09, 7 May 2009 (UTC)
 : Then enter them as two different languages.  Though it'll face some of the same confusion as VB vs VB.Net, or ANSI BASIC vs QuickBASIC.  --[[User:Short Circuit|Short Circuit]] 08:27, 8 May 2009 (UTC)
+== Various flavors of (Visual) BASIC ==
+I notice that both VBA and Visual Basic 6 are listed. As pointed out, VB already exists. VBA is a superset of VB -- or, perhaps more appropriately, VB is an implementation of VBA. What this means is that "Visual Basic" covers both "Visual Basic 6" and "VBA". There is no need for seperate entries for either of those languages. (If you're programming VBA under Excel, that's a special-purpose version of VBA. If you're writing in VB6, that's a general-purpose version of VBA.)
+I vote that those two entries be removed from this list, and any place that has them listed seperately from Visual Basic be merged in. (Any VB examples I post are actually written and tested in Excel... but only because I'm not allowed to install VB on this machine.)
+On a similar, and yet unrelated note, I need to add PowerBASIC. I'm working on the category entry, but I don't think I'll have it done before I go home for the weekend (and no internet access @ home, sigh). I'm going to upload what I've got, and if anyone else wants to finish it before I get back to it Monday, have a ball. (It needs at least three entries, one for each language variant.)