gee ... nice to have a onboard programming language. Am I hearing right? The binary is cross-platform? Or is the source-code cross-platform?
well ... actually, if you do visual basic, its not too difficult picking up most of the other languages ...
... from personal experience. mmm ... ok, I learnt QBASIC
(and apparently BASIC b4 that!
) before I learnt C, then Visual C++ and much later, Visual BASIC. But I still think if you know VB, it is already easier to learn other languages.