C# was born to fight off Java, there was never a technical reason to invent a new language. It does give the curly brace lovers something to hold onto though and something for us to argue about ad nauseum in forums. Such fun.

:laugh:That was a biased answer if ever I saw one. The implication is that since you consider a VB6 programmer to be a dud, they will still be duds if they move to VB.net but fine of course if they adopt curly braces and hit c# (from VB6 of course) Give me two teams, two jobs, two languages. 9 times out of 10 the VB team will deliver sooner and produce more maintainable code which is handy when they all leave for a job in C# at you place. C#: If its hard to write it should be hard to understand