VB.NET vs. C# - Someone stop this madness

Published Wed, Jul 14 2004 21:24 | William

About two months ago I was invited to take part in the beta for this product and I had a lot of trouble with the aforementioned marketing page - factually it's incorrect although I probably agree with it to some small degree.  I was actually going to blog about it but decided against it b/c the issue is so lame that you turn into a dork just getting near it - it's like Computerized Ebola.  Anyway, learn them both.  Don't just learn one.  Learn both.  And for God's sake, walk away from these these silly arguments. I'm not dogging Carl  by any means, he's way more accomplished than I am, but damn, some stuff just isn't worth paying attention to and wayy to many 'real' programmers are chiming in on this.  I for one am not that smart so I need to spend my time learning the new features of VS.NET 2005.    Since this isn't a VB6 vs. C++ era anymore, there's not much worth arguing about here.

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# William said on July 15, 2004 12:07 PM:

Bill:

so true...a smart man once told me that the one who has to bag other programming languages on the same platform/level is simply insecure about his/her own choice of languages...

Though i admit, when bored, i can take to the "streets" and stir up some shite just by bagging on or the other (you'd be amazed at how many idiots actually take the bait)..it's either that topic or my love of Internet Explorer and a fanatical obsession of arguing with the "other side/dark side" of OS's and giving them hell..or simply just ignoring any and all errors/issues IE might have...real fun when you're up late, reading through mind-numbing material.

# William said on July 16, 2004 12:57 AM:

I think the smart man was very very smart. I think I'm going to write some shitty code in C# and then go write the same code, but really really unproductively in VB.NET just for giggles.

# William said on May 1, 2005 9:31 PM:

Absolutely true. What is up with people who tries to compare my language is better than yours. It's like going around saying my left nut is bigger than your right nut.

Learn both the language and use both your nuts idiots.

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