Sorry for getting violent, or hinting at violence with the written word, but I really can’t stand Visual Basic.

Fine, I get it, C# and vb.net are almost indistinct from a functionality perspective. In the end it’s all compiled down to MSIL but no one writes MSIL, okay some probably do but not 99% of the development community.

As Nigel Shaw sums quite nicely in Not Another C# Versus VB Article, it is ultimately a culture issue. In the end Microsoft took such a soft road with vb.net that they left the door wide open to every ‘worst practice’ imaginable.

Some other quotes I had lying around in notes that I don’t know who to attribute to:

• “C# is a future language with international standardization muscle; the others are just legacy language reruns. Don’t write new code, especially class library code, in them!”
• Microsoft’s developer roadmap specifies that C# is intended for class library development while VB for RAD development.
• C# has much greater potential for widespread adoption, not only by developers but also by platforms, already having been released on other platforms (Mono 1.0).
• C# has the lead in language extension while VB continually plays catchup.

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