What is Visual Basic

Hi-
After my question last week regarding "Software recommendation for
beginners" (I was looking for html editor suggestions for high school
students.)  I am not going to recommend any wysiwig editor at this time.
Neither am I going to recommend Homesite or any equivalent text-based
editor mainly for budget reasons (they need about 20-30 copies of the
program) and because they really do not need anything like that at this
time. They'll be creating simple web pages.

However, to make the html somewhat  easier for them I started searching for
freeware/shareware html editors to recommend. I am looking for something
that can handle larger files than notepad/simple text, can copy/paste, can
undo/redo, can open multiple files. It would also be nice if the html tags
could be color coded. I came across one program (MatHTML) that says it
requires Visual Basic. I am a Mac person, can someone explain what this is?

Also, if anyone has any freeware/shareware html editor suggestions that has
some of the features above, that's great too. Am looking for Mac as well as
PC.

Thanks,
Suzanne

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