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The language wars are heating up again. Carl responds to a link to this page: Reasons To Convert From VB.Net To C#. The comments on Carl's blog were fast and furious but I can't really understand the crap that some of the C# people pile upon VB developers.

Rory picked up on the thread as well, adding his two cents in his usual humorous way.

My point of view falls in line with these two guys; Use the best tool for the job and for your situation!

If you're a C++ developer, it's natural to gravitate towards C#. If you're a VB guy stick with what you know and use VB.NET. Unless you REALLY need to do something specific that one of the two languages support, or if the shop you're working for requires a specific language, there's not much difference between the two.

Anyways, this list of reasons is just a list for some developer to use to try and convince their managers (who probably don't know any better) that C# is better than VB.NET. Kind of a coincidence that they happen to sell a tool to convert VB 6 code to C# right? No hidden agenda there...

posted on Wednesday, July 14, 2004 10:40 AM

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# re: Curly Braces for me and you. 7/14/2004 11:23 AM Mark
"...VB guy stick with..."

I was a command line and WSH scripter who jumped immediately on C#. It wasn't what I knew but man was it clean compared to VB.NET syntax.

# re: Curly Braces for me and you. 7/19/2004 7:51 AM Richard Callaby
Personally I believe the language wars are a waste of time. And since i have way too much of it right now that is what I am going to do with it. Essentially we are arguing over who's technology is better. While this may be fun. Technology is fluid. It changes quite rapidly. So this argument is really a waste of time that programmers could be putting to better use by making the UI's more friendly and making the connection between the hardware/software more friendly. I am sure we could sll use Apple as a prime example of how to do this as they seem to have this mastered.

More on this at my blog:
http://blog.richard-callaby.net/PermaLink.aspx?guid=d135611d-8c50-43e1-a25e-a88a3b8d4f8f

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