Yes, I think you probably are. If you would like to see an example of someone who has excellent credentials and is very comfortable with VB and somewhat intimidated by C#, check out Julia Lerman and her book "Programming Entity Framework". Julia states herself that she has not done much with C# and does most of her work in VB. Her book is an excellent reference source and I find her writing quite engaging and very concise. As for my programming 'chops', I have been programming for 40 years and got my degree before they had a Computer Science department at most universities. We all took 'math classes'. I have migrated from Cobol and Fortran to Basic, C, C++, VB, C# with many asides along the way. My first commercial program was hand coded in hexadecimal. I currently do most of my work in C++ and VB with forays in to C# when I find it necessary. The reason for VB is that is what the customer wants. VB and C# are the same language. You only have to pay your 'Sin' tax to convert between the two. The real worth of a programmer is in their ability to abstract the problem in to logical constructs independent of the language toolset they are accustomed to. I think if you delve a little deeper you might find some gems in the rough scattered among those VB programmers you find littering your path.