(Again) Visual Basic.NET Exceeded C# Popularity in TIOBE in October 2018 And it is Raising

[Lost User]

How did you guess? 😂

[JohnDG52]

Just because it has a feature doesn't mean you have to use it.

[Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter]

Depends on who reading... I have no problem to see what happening there... even easier than reading the if/else version...

"The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge". Stephen Hawking, 1942- 2018

[Lost User]

Exactly. The experienced may be able to understand it; me, as a hobby coder, finds it a lot harder to read and understand what is going on 😀

[Lost User]

..often hobbyists turned pro. Good that doctors don't do that :)

Bastard Programmer from Hell :suss: If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^] "If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.

[BryanFazekas]

Dave Kreskowiak wrote:

It doesn't matter what the language is, the money I get for writing in it is still green.

Big thumbs up on this! I'll work in any language if someone wants to pay me to do it.

[rkinning]

That is true only because MS deemed it so. They have less support for VB, the business language that built MS. It is a quality language as is c# only with out the } and is intelligent enough to know when the statement ends unlike is single letter counterpart.

[Dave Kreskowiak]

So what made MS "deem it so"? As for "smart enough", I'd rather code to the explicit rather than the convention.

Asking questions is a skill CodeProject Forum Guidelines Google: C# How to debug code Seriously, go read these articles.
Dave Kreskowiak

[daveaton]

At home I use C# and C++\QT on my projects but, at work I am forced to use Visual Basic because, I work with domain computers that will not allow a compiler to be installed. In my office Access is king and we have custom programs written with Access 2016. I can see why Visual Basic is not dead yet and keeps making progress.

[Member 11776358]

Are not the same crap nowdays?

[Mark Miller]

It appears with the garbage VB and supposedly identical C# you concocted that you are a master of master of all things! We should bow to you and our soon-to-be VB.NET overlords! Oh, but wait, what's this? Surely this doesn't work?! You can't have expressions in a C# switch statement!!! Sorry, but YES YOU CAN, if you know even 1% of C# BASIC syntax...

        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;
        }

If you love VB.NET, then USE it, we don't care. Just stop embarrassing yourself by trying to "Prove" how much better VB.NET is. I am proficient in both languages and I prefer C#. That doesn't make me better or worse than you. All you do with these threads on "VB is better!!!" is tick people off. If that's how you get your jollies, I feel for you. 'nuff said.

Sincerely, -Mark mamiller@rhsnet.org

[Mark Miller]

Is that so? Than what is the "_" used for in VB.NET?

Sincerely, -Mark

[Mark Miller]

Is that so? Than what is the "_" used for in VB.NET?

Sincerely, -Mark

[georani]

Mark Miller wrote:

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

This C# code you made is valid only in Visual Studio 2017 and C# 7.0, few people know that But the equivalent VB.net is so since 2002 So you have made a stupid and impolite declaration about my C# knowledge Pattern Matching in C# 7.0 Case Blocks -- Visual Studio Magazine[^]

[DaveP62]

OriginalGriff wrote:

It still has On Error Resume Next - so it's still garbage.

Not knowing how to code doesn't make the language garbage it makes the coder garbage. :laugh: This is not knowing how to code:

On Error Resume Next
objShell.Run strRunCmd, 1, True

This is how to handle the error properly and reset properly:

On Error Resume Next
objShell.Run strRunCmd, 1, True 'True means wait for the app to exit before continuing the script
If Err.Number <> 0 Then
ErrMsg Err.Number, Err.Description, "Error with objShell.Run [" & strRunCmd & "]", True
End If
On Error GoTo 0

[Mark Miller]

Your reply proves my point, so thank you for responding EXACTLY the way I knew you would. I'll not bother replying again, so rant away! Very few are listening.

Sincerely, -Mark mamiller@rhsnet.org

[Slow Eddie]

If you don't like it, don't use it. All of you VB haters make me laugh. Calling something that is used by thousands of programmers "Garbage", is just childish. The opposite of love isn't hate, it's indifference. :suss:

[Peter Adam]

Finally, the World needs to be freed from the "power of Assembly with the readability of the Assembly" language, and it's derivatives.

[georani]

Mark Miller wrote:

Very few are listening.

Sincerely, -Mark

OK, anyway you are breaking this site rules beeing so impolite, this an evidence of possible disguise of lack of knowledge about what you are saying.

[Matt McGuire]

I agree; there is nothing wrong with VB.net. It's a good language; it has it's strengths and weaknesses, just like C# does. They are not exactly equal in all situations, but close. When to choose one over the other, is mostly a personal preference. the shop i work in now is only C#, which is fine, but i do miss some of VB.net features. the last one was VB.net and there were some features only in C# that would have been nice to have. some may argue c# is cleaner than VB.net; once again it depends on who what writing the code. I've seen everything from trash to art in both these languages. is one language quicker to develop with than the other? no not really. will one language help you write less code? not really, unless you count "}" vs "end if". is one easier to learn? from a noob standard, likely VB.net, but you will have to learn a bunch of C# on the way to read the documentation. if someone is experienced in a C style language then C# is likely to get them going quicker. for all the VB.net haters out there, I've been in development now for 20+ years, I've seen a lot and learned a lot, and frankly language wars are stupid; just use the language that is correct for the situation and let others be.