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I can also break out Lisp into Arc, SBCL, Emacs, Chicken, Racket but I have to draw the line somewhere.

Also historically VBasic has not garnered many responses thus the catch all.

Some VB variants like VBA, VBScript, and VB6, are indeed similar enough to be grouped into a single item, I'll grant you that. VB.NET, however, is not. It's basically C# in VB's clothing. It kept the VB name and some of its syntax to bring VB6 developers into the world of .NET.

So, IMHO, grouping VB.NET with VB6 would be like grouping C, C++, and C# together just because they have a C in their names.

What about Java and Javascript? :)

VBA and VBScript (iirc) have only On Error Resume Next, while VB6 has On Error Goto. This is a tremendous difference in how you structure your program's error handling.

VBA in MS Access has On Error Goto.

Oh, I might be getting VBA confused with VBScript then. I know VBScript only allows you to crash or just continue on an error, whereas full VB6 lets you On Error Goto Errorhandler and you can provide an Errorhandler label for your error code.

There is a Scheme option for Racket/Chicken

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