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Why Visual Basic is (supposedly) better than C#

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Re: Why Visual Basic is (supposedly) better than C#

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Post by bertzzie »

anton_gogolev wrote: post #2

Oh what a piece of BS. Yet another shallow, mechanical comparison of tiny "features" and IDE peculiarities with no other purpose in life other than initiating a decade-old flamewar. And comparing "&&" and "and"? Really?

wait, the article is not sarcasm? I thought the site is some kind of the Onion for programmers?

Re: Why Visual Basic is (supposedly) better than C#

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Post by anton_gogolev »

bertzzie wrote: post #3
anton_gogolev wrote: post #2

Oh what a piece of BS. Yet another shallow, mechanical comparison of tiny "features" and IDE peculiarities with no other purpose in life other than initiating a decade-old flamewar. And comparing "&&" and "and"? Really?

wait, the article is not sarcasm? I thought the site is some kind of the Onion for programmers?

Doesn't look like one.

Re: Why Visual Basic is (supposedly) better than C#

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Post by redact207 »

Sadly this is how many VB guys think. I'm a C# guy and I honestly don't care, it all compiles to the same MSIL anyway and intellisense makes it easy to write either. Seriously if my keyboard was ever logged, all it'd reveal is txtI if(is) { refre;

One reason VB has such a stigma attached to it is because it's common to see it written by non-developers, particularly lurking in excel as some background macro. Anyone can butcher any language - it's just a matter of preference. Anyone who touts a language so strongly has clearly lost the purpose of having it and is not worth debating with.

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