Yeah, I used it back then. A lot of VBScript on the server and a couple of years Visual Basic on the desktop.

VB/VBScript is almost like writing shell scripts, in one sense. You can write really maintainable, even elegant stuff. It's just that nobody else is, and the language is almost pathologically constructed to discourage it.

(Although, at least shell scripting was never really intended for big apps, so, it has an excuse)