The problem that software professionals have with VB is that it has allowed hacker office types to produce something they cannot be responsible for, forcing them to leave their wonderful project on the doorstep of the IT department when it gets hard.

It's the same as handing a sixteen year old a socket set so he can maintain his own car. He'll change the oil perhaps, but when he decides to make it a hot rod he'll end up pushing it to a mechanic to make it run at all.