Did I miss any talk of this posting?

http://ecanuto.blogspot.com/2008/05/...lable-for.html

It looks impressive... I got it installed but will need quite a bit of time to explore this. I got Tomboy Notes running fine, and wonder if anyone else has dabbled in this. pipeline?

If this means I can finally write applications for maemo using VB.Net, I'm in!

yeah i mentioned it in the mono/C# thread a few days ago or so. i'd love to write vb.net (winforms) apps though instead of C#

I haven't used .net at all, but I've used VB enough to grant me a thorough distaste. Still, I suppose options, even that option, are good.

Well I tried something fairly simple in VB.NET and it refused to run because Visual Studio forces the Microsoft.VisualBasic namespace in there. No choice. I tried the same thing in C# and it causes a SIGABRT.

So no joy, just yet.

VB.NET is not VB. It's a VB face put on the CLR... Still, I much prefer C#.

P.S. I grant and understand your opinion, I don't see how comments like that merit a "Thanks" though? Was it really a "useful post"?

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.

Call me when they've made LISP.NET .

As for thanks, well, as long as they cost nothing (no limit on number or frequency), they'll get tossed around rather lightly. They are used a lot, it seems, to indicate "Me, too!" without wasting a post saying it. I take them as such (when context indicates), and I use them that way, too.

I'm enjoying TomBoy, don't know about the other stuff.

I use TomBoy all the time on my ubuntu pc, so this is going to be a joy on my n800

VB.NET compiles to the same IL as C#. C# just exposes the framework a bit more plainly to the developer. Check out how SharpDevelop can translate source from one language to another. And I find Python ugly, so it's all in what you're used to, I suppose.

Of course I also find Perl ugly, but that didn't stop me from using it, and even enjoying it!

P.S. again... I find the thanks around here to be a bit more ego-boosting than anything else. Opinions get thanked more often than actual posts that would be good reference later on. Pity, they could have been a useful search tool. Oh well, too late to change that now.

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.