[GaryPalmer]

Basic also has tons of dialects that are still alive and is not just used for office macros. Visual Basic was a big language for desktop applications at one time.

Edit: Just looked it up. The last version of Visual Basic came out in 2019 so it's hardly dead.

[hnlmorg]

Visual Basic .NET is as different from Visual Basic as C# from C++. They’re all different languages in their own right.

And Visual Basic is as different from BASIC as Java is from C.