Why is short-circuiting not the default behavior in VB?

Question

VB has operators AndAlso and OrElse, that perform short-circuiting logical conjunction.

Why is this not the default behavior of And

Answer 1

Explicit short-circuit makes sure that the left operand is evaluated first.

In some languages other than VB, logical operators may perform an implicit short circuit but may evaluate the right operator first (depending for instance on the complexity of the expressions at left and at right of the logical operator).