After takin' a swig o' grog, Leonardo da Jinn belched out this bit o' wisdom:

> VB.NET is quite an equal citizen. I would trust VB code
> over the pitfalls newbie programmers can get into with C++.
>
> Don't get people's issue with VB. It is based on very
> old information. VB6 was/is productive as hell. Compiled
> fast, robust. VB.NET is undoubtedly more so or MS
> will fix it.

Who cares? VB is a corporate lock-in language.

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I love the smell of code compiling in the morning. It smells like... Freedom.