It took me around three weeks to get fluent at Dvorak, with the help of http://learn.dvorak.nl/[^] and the sort. I'm not sure if I can type faster with Dvorak than with Qwerty, but I think I there are less typos, and it doesn't stress my fingers as much typing for extended periods. I think the main reason that I feel a positive change is that I had to learn Dvorak without doing anything to my QWERTY keyboard, which means that I had to learn this keyboard layout touch-typing all along. I never learnt QWERTY the right way, which meant a lot of typos and backspaces. On downside for me now is that I can hardly use QWERTY anymore. I guess if you don't practice it deliberately, it will just fade from your reflexes.

Yeah, but remember, before xhtml came around, it was used like:

<input disabled>

which makes a lot of sense.

You'll be pained if you try to teach a kid how to program in C#. But if you start with VB first, then let them switch later, well...

Just switched to C# from VB.Net a month ago. I have to say, VB.Net's better with a advanced editor (VS), and C#'s better with a worth one (Programmer's notepad). Writing VB code without automatic formatting will make it look like crap.