After reading "dozens" of C# vs VB.net articles in the past few days, think I'm not too far from reality when I say that the main difference between C# and VB.net resides basically in their syntax. In other words in the appeal of each one to each programmer.

For me, comming from Algol, Pascal and VFP, VB.net has greater "appeal" than C#.

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C#, to me, belongs to the family of Java/C++ and their grandfather C, and that reminds me the definition of C, below:

"A language that combines all the elegance and power of assembly language with all the readability and maintainability of assembly language." (New Hacker's Dictionary)

As you have a reference to great professor Dijkstra (one of my early programming days guru), you may notice his passion for Algol (as mine too), so I wonder what he would say about C and its "family"... :)

"I mean, if 10 years from now, when you are doing something quick and dirty, you suddenly visualize that I am looking over your shoulders and say to yourself, 'Dijkstra would not have liked this', well that would be enough immortality for me. - Edsger Dijkstra

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>On the contrary I find C# refreshing and interesting. Syntax is different enough from VFP (unlike VB), that I can easily jump between the two environments, and not get confused. The important, and hard thing to learn is the framework, not the language anyway.