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Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter wrote:

From your post I can conclude you are not in the same boat my manager...

Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter wrote:

you will understand how VB is limited

Sander Rossel wrote:

but I don't even think .NET Core supports VB.

Released 10/2/2018
    
    Release notes:
    
    Supports C# 7.3
    
    Supports F# 4.5
    
    Supports Visual Basic 15.5

Sander Rossel wrote:

Microsoft telling us VB is still supported, but not further developed.

Article excerpt:

C#, F# and VB already work with .NET Core 2.0. You will be able to build desktop applications with any of those three languages with .NET Core 3.

Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter wrote:

...you will understand how VB is limited...

Tavon a lúd átúsz, visszaúsz meg átúsz.

'VB.NET code 
 Select Case L1
            Case Is < 50
                If L1 = 42 Then

                    For x = 0 To 100
                        For y = 0 To 100
                            For z = 0 To 100
                                L1 = DoSomethingWithL(x,y,z,L)
                                If L1 = 2 Then L1 += 1 Else L1 = 0                             
                            Next z
                        Next y
                    Next x
                End If

            Case Is > 390
                L1 = 0
            Case Is = 70
                L1 = 32
 End Select

// C# code with "Curly Braces Hell"

	if (L1 < 50)
	{
		if (L1 == 42)
		{

			for (var x = 0; x <= 100; x++)
			{
				for (var y = 0; y <= 100; y++)
				{
					for (var z = 0; z <= 100; z++)
					{
                        L1 = DoSomethingWithL(x,y,z,L);
						if (L1 == 2)
						{
							L1 += 1;
						}
						else
						{
							L1 = 0;
						}  
					}
				}
			}
		}
	}

	else if (L1 > 390)
	{
		L1 = 0;
	}

	else if (L1 == 70)
	{
		L1 = 32;
	}

Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter wrote:

I would say that such highly hypothetical code has nothing to do with nothing...

Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter wrote:

(L1 = (L1 == 42 || (L1 > 390)) ? L1 = 0 : (L1 == 70) ? L1 = 32 : L1;)

//C# code added
DoSomethingWithL(x,y,z,L);

switch (L1)
{
    case int xx when xx < 50 || xx == 42:
        for (int x = 0; x < 101; x++)
            for (int y = 0; y < 101; y++)
                for (int z = 0; y < 101; z++)
                {
                    L1 = DoSomethingWithL(x, y, z, L1);
                    L1 = (L1 == 2 ? L1 = 3 : L1 = 0);
                }
        break;
    case int xx when xx > 390:
        L1 = 0;
        break;
    case 70:
        L1 = 32;
        break;
}

Mark Miller wrote:

Sorry, but YES YOU CAN, if you know even 1% of C# BASIC syntax

Mark Miller wrote:

Very few are listening.

Sincerely,

-Mark

Dave Kreskowiak wrote:

They are equivalent in the sense that they both target the .NET Framework.

Dave Kreskowiak wrote:

Visual Basic is the odd man out in the new .Net | InfoWorld[^]

The .NET Language Strategy | .NET Blog[^]

Article excerpt:

C#, F# and VB already work with .NET Core 2.0. You will be able to build desktop applications with any of those three languages with .NET Core 3.