Re: Is VB Caca??

Tom,

"Tom Leylan" <tleylan@xxxxxxxxxx> schrieb:
Although I like many details in VB.NET, I am not a "VB evangelist", but instead I am one of its strongest critics too. I do not want to sell VB because it's simply not my job.

Whatever... I haven't read any criticism from you re: VB.Net except to remark how it departed from VB6 in some way which you find "just as good". But I could be wrong so let's see... what don't you like about VB.Net?


Array support (especially "overloading" '(...)' with many different functions), some language inconsistencies and redundancy ('Exit Sub' vs. 'Return'), the lack of definite assignment checking, BC42104, automatic import of modules without an option to turn it off, the lack of support for inline comments, unclear/weakened semantics of 'Shared' (especially since the introduction of a warning regarding access of shared members via an instance), ...

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