>>I don't find language comparison useful or interesting. Between Java and .NET, for example, the really big difference are the libraries/framework, but the language are quite similar. Between VB.NET and Smalltalk, the differences are so huge that they are not comparable. I like programming languages but I never compare them, but try to learn it's paradigm and special features. Of course, you find some featues in a language that you find nice to have in others, but this is anoth thing.
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>WHAT!
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>You're an MS MVP right?
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>Do you mean that before doing an app. you analyze which development language would be best suited for the job?
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>If your answer to that question was yes then I really think that there's something wrong with you. Does that mean that you don't know that .Net is the solution to all problems. I don't personally know that but from what have been said over this seems to be the case.
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>I'm afraid your MVP days are close to be over Martin
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>If your answer to my question was no and you know that .Net is the universal solution then excuse me for disturbing you. No fear to have on your MVP status

LOL. Well, seriously, I keep talking and presenting about other technologies, and yet -while the sales people don't like me- the people running MSDN and the MVP program never told me a word. Indeed, they take the chance to contact me whenever another customer has an integration problem with these things.

Actually, just yesterday I attend to an Architect Form at the local MS subsidiary on interoperation between J2EE and .NET, and the girl presenting really stood absolutely in the middle and unbiased (although I have to admit she was soooo boring speaking that I quited early). {bg}

They are not SOOO bad, sometimes. 8-D