...for those who don't know anything about the Amiga, AmigaBASIC that came with early systems was a Microsoft implementation and some people's first exposure to programming.

I guess you were downvoted because you don't need Office?? Windows itself comes with an interpreter (VBScript) and a compiler (vbc.exe).

VBScript is kind of dead I thought? I mean, I thought that was distinct from VBA and related to IE and going away if it hasn't quite yet.