Question: Which American author is best known for his work of a third-generation event-driven programming language and integrated development environment (IDE) from Microsoft?
Sentence (from "Visual Basic"): Visual Basic was derived from BASIC, a user-friendly programming language designed for beginners, and it enables the rapid application development (RAD) of graphical user interface (GUI) applications, access to databases using Data Access Objects, Remote Data Objects, or ActiveX Data Objects, and creation of ActiveX controls and objects.
Relevant evidence: No