Re: Is VB.NET dead?

sloan wrote:


Quotes I pulled out:

and the C# design team wants to ensure that the language will be
relevant years into the future.

For C#, that means thoughtful and deliberate evolution with a focus
on general-purpose programming

hehe, yeah, suuurrreeee....

If that was their truest goal, they wouldn't come up with Linq
EMBEDDED in the language, but with a DSL awareness system with which
they would write Linq support (as a true separated DSL), so other DSLs
could be embedded into C# as well, and they wouldn't come up with crud
like partial methods and extension methods (but not properties) as
these are solely there to support their tight embedding of Linq (to
sql) into the C# language.

that's not future, that's here and now.

FB


(Vb.Net)

Redmond is willing to take more chances by adding features that have
value here and now.

"Mick Walker" <materialised@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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clintonG wrote:
This month's Redmond Developer magazine states VB.NET will
continue to be developed.but C# is the preferred language for
general programming. Quite frankly, I think many developers
adopted C# as they quickly came to understand web development
requires a mastery of Javascript and the syntax for Javascript
and C# is exactly the same as it is with Java so a developer
learns three languages for the price of one.

Would it be possible to get a link to this article? I cant seem to
find it.



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