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.

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