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ajhampson12-Jun-15 4:33
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Steven121812-Jun-15 11:50
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Yeah, I have seen this discussed from time to time. For Microsoft, VB.net carries almost no expense as they do not have to maintain a separate compiler. Visual Studio just translates both C# and VB.net into the intermediate language (CIL?) which then gets compiled. (Actually I have heard C# described as C++ with VB goodness baked inside).

Interestingly, according to TIOBE this month VB.net ranks #7, between Python at #6 and PHP at #8. Even Visual Basic (VB6?) ranks at #11 just above Perl.

There are a lot of prejudices out there. I have noticed hard-core C programmers tend to look down their noses at C++ and C# folks. Then again Assembler programmers tend to look down on all the Compiler folks (C included), who in turn tend to look down on folks using Interpreted languages. Then again I am sure that 50 years ago there were folks entering programs on the register switches in front of computers back then who thought the Assembler folks were clots (I did this once, no great fun tho).

In short, Member 9993589, welcome to programming!
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