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	Texrat	2008-05-21 , 21:23
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Originally Posted by Benson

I understand that it's not the same under the hood; but why use such a language for anything? The language itself seems unpleasant and ugly to me, and I can't imagine that it maps as cleanly as C# or even java (the language, not the VM implentation) to the CLR, so the "assembly code" probably looks bad, too..

Funny how opinions go. I find VB and VB.Net elegant, efficient, powerful and friendly. Been using Basic variants for over 20 years and have found it mostly joyful. To me the VB slams are coding snobbery, which I have never understood. It would be like saying Swedish is better than French.

And you're in for a surprise if you actually investigate VB.Net instead of abritrarily writing it off. Guess what: it now creates assembly just as cleanly as C# thanks to the latest CLR. In fact, VB.Net actually has a few performance advantages.

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