You are absolutely correct. I meant to say BASIC (GW), not VB. I didn't start using VB until version 2.0 came out. My daughter graduated college in 1987, and I've been programming computers since 1963, so yeah, I've been around for a while. I learned and used three assemblers before I tackled C. Assemblers were much easier. And, yes, I learned them without formal training. It just took a few books and reading a few thousand lines of other people's code. If C was around in the 60s I was not aware of it, but then I didn't learn about it until around '82 (I think). I was happily programming business applications in BASIC before the first BASIC compiler was released. The fact remains, beauty, along with read and writeability is in the eye of the beholder. If you do better with C# than VB then that is where your talents should be focused. But I only do contact work now, so versatility is important to me. I probably won't be learning the next, hot, new programming language even if I'm around that long. My brain is too full to stuff anything else in there.

I don't get it. For me, I see no major difference in readability or writeability between C# and VB. I'm just as comfortable with either, and I had assumed that to be true of all programmers. And VB isn't ugly unless the the programmer makes it that way. It seems to me that people who work with C exclusively don't like VB because it has removed some of the mysticism from computer programming, allowing the "average Joe" to do what he wants with his computer without waiting for weeks/months/years for someone to do it for him. But that's just my perception - maybe wrong. But then, I'm an old fart who learned VB long before C was a twinkle in it's daddy's eye.

Enterprise used to mean a business organization, but it has been so misused (mostly by the computer industry) that it no longer has a definition. But if the old definition is taken into account, an enterprise solution (application, etc.) could simply mean that it can be used by the whole company - even if it's a simple calculator used by one person, if that person is the only one in the company.