C# or VB.NET ? Which one do you perefer ?
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It's just a high percentage of c# users probably come from C++ backgrounds, where as VB.net users will come from scripting backgrounds (ie. VB).
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Yes.... ok... and....? Actually, that might make an interesting CP poll one day.... "How did you progress to your current programming language (of choice)?" (or something like that) except that I guess there'd be too mnay possible answers... personally I came to VB via the ZX-Spectrum and the BBC Micro - QBasic and the like... just stuck with it as I have never needed anything more powerful or which requires more structure. VB.NET is quite powerful enough for the SME -size aspplications I have been involved in, and I find it quick and easy. I have had no compelling reason to move to C#, which I quite accept is better structured. I guess C# is a "programmer's language". I love programming, but it isn't my whole life.
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My only objection to C# is that just about everyone that programs in it is a complete intellectual snob. You only have to look at most of the replies to your post to see this. When I want to knock a wall down, I use a sledge-hammer. When I want to crack open a nut, I use a nut-cracker. Besides which - who cares? Just use what you are happy using, if you can, and be happy using what you are, if you can't. Fred
But then, what would you use VB for, if you had the choice? Cracking your own nuts with a sledgehammer, maybe? (I can afford my snobism - I do C++, Win32 and templates ;P)
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My only objection to C# is that just about everyone that programs in it is a complete intellectual snob. You only have to look at most of the replies to your post to see this. When I want to knock a wall down, I use a sledge-hammer. When I want to crack open a nut, I use a nut-cracker. Besides which - who cares? Just use what you are happy using, if you can, and be happy using what you are, if you can't. Fred
Fred_Smith wrote:
When I want to crack open a nut, I use a nut-cracker.
VB. Nuts or crackers?
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But then, what would you use VB for, if you had the choice? Cracking your own nuts with a sledgehammer, maybe? (I can afford my snobism - I do C++, Win32 and templates ;P)
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My first real C# project | Linkify!|FoldWithUs! | sighistI do use VB, by choice. Only because that's what I started in and I have never felt the need to use anything different. Most of my clients (I am self-employed) are SME sized concerns, and I find VB quite adequate for the job. Quick and easy.
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Yes.... ok... and....? Actually, that might make an interesting CP poll one day.... "How did you progress to your current programming language (of choice)?" (or something like that) except that I guess there'd be too mnay possible answers... personally I came to VB via the ZX-Spectrum and the BBC Micro - QBasic and the like... just stuck with it as I have never needed anything more powerful or which requires more structure. VB.NET is quite powerful enough for the SME -size aspplications I have been involved in, and I find it quick and easy. I have had no compelling reason to move to C#, which I quite accept is better structured. I guess C# is a "programmer's language". I love programming, but it isn't my whole life.
You see I came from a Mini Mainframe background DATA/Basic (Mid 80s), Assembler, moved to Windows in '92 use C, then C++. I made a decision in 2000 that the future of development would be done in .net and the 'native' popular language of choice would be C# - logical I guess.
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Fred_Smith wrote:
When I want to crack open a nut, I use a nut-cracker.
VB. Nuts or crackers?
Deja View - the feeling that you've seen this post before.
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But then, what would you use VB for, if you had the choice? Cracking your own nuts with a sledgehammer, maybe? (I can afford my snobism - I do C++, Win32 and templates ;P)
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My first real C# project | Linkify!|FoldWithUs! | sighistWell, personally I prefer
C#but I also agree with Fred_Smith about 'intellectual snobism'.C#andVB.NET, under the hood, are not such different languages. I think it's mainly matter of personal taste. :)If the Lord God Almighty had consulted me before embarking upon the Creation, I would have recommended something simpler. -- Alfonso the Wise, 13th Century King of Castile.
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Javascript is interesting. Ruby is interesting. Even good ol' C++ still has some interesting bits. VB.NET and C# just are. Like... forks. Useful, but not exactly novel. ...ohyeah, and for some reason the VB.NET users like to hold their forks by the pointy end. :rolleyes:
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j/k, I am a java guy in a c# world so I stick with the familiar c style syntax.
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i've got the feeling that VB programmers *think* that C# is hard and therefore continue to VB.NET. But when they try C# for awhile they find eveything easier and cleaner in c# than vb.net. Atleast the eight vb programmers i know. So according to my sources - 100% of (used-to-be) vb developers prefer C# ;)
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I did VB .NET solidly for a year or so recently. The main problem for me was that its IDE support is inferior to C#, especially in the VS 2005 IDE. E.g., the way snippets work for VB is terrible.
Kevin
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Must be crackers to use it.
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Nah, I'm just nuts. :cool:
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F# :cool:
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