Nishant Sivakumar wrote:

Why are people still using this?

I wrote VB6 for 6 years. And the first impression of C# was "how many lines of code!" (as, indeed, in deplhi, which was very popular in Russia). For 4 years of using C# I gradually began to use many tricks to get the code concise. Plus new features of C#3, 4... I am satisfied now. But still I'm not sure that if VB6 had real inheritance, and had no problem of cyclic references, it would concede C# in applied programming.