Re: =?UTF-8?B?QW5kcm9pZOKAlFdoeSBEYWx2aWs/?=

From:

ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram)

Newsgroups:

comp.lang.java.programmer

Date:

9 Jun 2011 03:38:37 GMT

Message-ID:

<VB-20110609053556@ram.dialup.fu-berlin.de>

Michael Wojcik <mwojcik@newsguy.com> writes:

VB.NET is in many ways closer to C# than it is to historical BASIC.
It's trivial to compile VB.NET into MSIL and then decompile it back
into C#, or vice versa (if you avoid newer C# features that aren't
supported in VB.NET yet).

  VB is not called ?VB.NET? anymore.

  When one writes code in VB, then compiles it into IL, one
  can't but avoid newer C# features that aren't supported in
  VB yet!

  There also are features in VB not supported in C#.

      "Visual Basic is a full-fledged modern object-oriented
      language with many unique features, such as static
      typing where possible but dynamic typing where
      necessary, declarative event handling, deep XML
      integration with optional layered XSD types, highly
      expressive query comprehension syntax, type inference,
      etc. etc. This makes Visual Basic actually more
      interesting to researchers and practitioners than the
      "popular" static languages such as Java, C# and dynamic
      languages such as Ruby or JavaScript."

    Erik Meijer