In many respects c# can be considered to be proprietary 'Microsoft Java'. As Java is a respectable language, the same can be said about c#, but as Java's roots are in c, there are still some hang-ups from that far-off time. The one I really hate is the switch statement. vb's select case statement is much better. Whoever heard of jump statements? Yuk! Nowadays we all believe in goto-free programming. The one thing I miss in all these modern languages is Algol 60's wonderful feature of being able to define arrays with ranges of indices from, say, -n to +n. This can be useful in all kinds of situations.