really, isnt it the responsibility of the developer to take care of what he is writing? if the language does something without his knowing then he is just a bad programmer.

I dont care what others say but I still vote for VB. I can program with VB and C# with equal ease but prefer the former because it lets me concentrate on my programming and logic rather than syntax. This actually saves me a lot of time with capitalization of variables. Think of it and calculate. if you have one capital for a variable and you have 10 variables and use it 10 times in your class, that means in C# you are using the "shift" key 100 times more. doesnt it give us that much more time? VB does it for you. So what if isnt OOPS strictly. It gets the work done and thats it. And it lets me get the work done easily. And if MS were to dump VB I will write my own compiler for it and sit on a hunger strike till they give me the code for the compiler.