Not sure I agree with those reasons. I think the primary reason is that VB as a language has grown greatly partly to keep pace with C#. As such, devs with a classic VB background find it much easier to get past syntactical barriers. Crossing the OOP barrier requires significant psychological bounds, however.
On Dec 28, 4:58 am, jmsides <[email protected]> wrote: > The move to C# was/is driven by developers. As companies discover the > benefits of VB over C# there is a move back to VB. VB is somewhat > easier for the less skilled developer to use, mostly because of the > Visual Studio IDE. For a company it does not make since to chase > technology for technologies sake. The bottom line is most important, > not the language. It is not something new, it is something old. > Checkhttp://visualbasic.about.com/for the same subject. > Lots of companies do have lots of old vb6 code and the used VB for a > reason. The reasons have not changed. > There has been a running joke concerning C#. "Why learn to do C#? > Because it pays better." > Now for all those C# bigots, If I am wrong then VB should be fading > away? > DON'T put all of your brain cells into C#. You need VB in your tool > box.
