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5. VB.NET will be around for a long time

Fri Feb 3, 2012, 10:05 PM

Feb 2012

Hell, there are thousands of VB6 applications still in production. I've worked with both C#.NET and VB.NET, and they aren't all that different. The syntax is different, but that's about it - a .NET app is a .NET app, no matter which flavor of language was used to build it. There are a ton of applications written in VB.NET, and the beauty of the .NET system is that it lets you extend those applications with whichever .NET tool you prefer.

Ironically, C# really owes its existence to Visual Basic. In their heyday, VB 5 and 6 were the fastest and easiest ways to build business applications. The "real" programmers who worked with C and C++ (and some other, archaic languages) were dismissive of the VB language, but when Microsoft built the .NET Framework, they used a Rapid Application Development model like VB to launch C#.

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Anyone (like me) still in the 20th Century writing COBOL? [View all] Kennah Feb 2012 OP

Spent four years doing conversions from COBOL. ManiacJoe Feb 2012 #1

Last time I wrote COBAL it was on punched cards (1980?) OffWithTheirHeads Feb 2012 #2

Converted a lot of COBOL to .Net ChromeFoundry Feb 2012 #3

I was wondering about the future of VB ... Kennah Feb 2012 #4

VB.NET will be around for a long time EvolveOrConvolve Feb 2012 #5

I will inherit some VB6 Kennah Feb 2012 #6

"they used a Rapid Application Development model like VB to launch C#" hootinholler Mar 2012 #13

VB.net AgingAmerican Oct 2012 #17

Many programmers consider VB a 'toy' language AgingAmerican Oct 2012 #18

Not me personally naragdaban Feb 2012 #7

I've never WRITTEN it, but always been able to read it - turn the listing upside down. HopeHoops Mar 2012 #8

Haven't written in COBOL in years, SnowCritter Mar 2012 #9

Some days, writing COBOL feels like a criminal offense Kennah Mar 2012 #11

Well, it is - SnowCritter Mar 2012 #12

Spam deleted by TBF (MIR Team) sammuel Mar 2012 #10

RPG Stroked Jun 2012 #14

RPG is probably as rare as Assembler Kennah Jun 2012 #15

I did COBOL for 10 years until I got the RIF in December. valerief Aug 2012 #16