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  • VB guys can be Zealots too

    This morning I heard some devastating news - Bill McCarthy, author of the @Head blog, has been evicted from a community discussion alias for being inflammatory and using derogatory language. As a courtesy to the VB community Bill has posted his thoughts about VB being the n*gg*r of Microsoft's programming...
    Posted to Nick's .NET Travels (Weblog) by nick on 10-21-2007
  • Why some C# developers are Zealots!

    Today I came across a quote that I couldn't help but blog. For a while Brian has been running a C# developer site called CSharpZealot and he continually gives me grief about using VB.NET as my primary language. Other than pointing out that C# is lacking good xml language integration, I tend to avoid...
    Posted to Nick's .NET Travels (Weblog) by nick on 10-12-2007
  • Languages - Only part of the equation

    I'm sorry did I miss the point where we started caring again about what language we are writing in. This was a discussion point 5 years ago when we didn't have powerful IDEs to help us write applications. Now it should be "what job do I want to get done?" and "what technology is...
    Posted to Nick's .NET Travels (Weblog) by nick on 07-04-2007
  • While C# has the "because" operator, VB.NET has the "why" query operator

    Although VB.NET has in the past missed out on some fairly crucial language features such as anonymous methods and iterators (both absent from VB2005 which shipped with .NET FX 2.0) it seems that it is going to edge C# out in the race for the most obscure operators. Mitch posted about the C# implementation...
    Posted to Nick's .NET Travels (Weblog) by nick on 11-26-2006
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