From: Christian Neukirchen <chneukirchen@...>
Date: 2005-12-01T23:02:13+09:00
Subject: Re: Programming Newbie: Ruby or Java?

James Britt <james_b@neurogami.com> writes:

> Aemca wrote:
>>>VB is a terrible language, Delphi at least has some design to it,
>>>I'm sure there's RAD type development environments for Java
>>>although I haven't used them.
>> VB.Net is a great language... just look at how many people are using
>> it, and liking it.
>
> Every so often I poke around with SharpDevelop, a free, open-source
> IDE for VB.net and C#.  Plays well with both Mono and the MS .Net SDK.
> It makes creating C# GUI apps so simple I wonder why people would
> bother with VB.net.

The difference is syntactic-sugar only, anyway, no?

> James
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