>"C# also is slated by Microsoft to become the primary development language for Windows Phone 7. Like Java, C# is big in the enterprise. However there are considerably fewer C# developers than there are Java developers. But the importance of C# as part of the Microsoft .NET strategy and its support through the Visual Studio tools suite make C# a formidable contender in the programming language race."
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>And then there was one - I already hear the arrogant at M$ saying it makes more sense to concentrate on one language- C#- to defeat Java. Sound familiar??
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>C# ranked No. 6 on the most-recent TIOBE Index (2/11).
>VB.NET ranked No. 22 on the most recent TIOBE Index (2/11)!!
Not sure what your point is. .NET is the "language". C# or VB are dialects. Switching between them is not very difficult. VFP is a completely different paradigm from .NET and its languages. Learning curve there was steep. I began my .NET with VB and now that I've decided to go with EF and WPF C# just seems to have more examples etc i don't have to translate so I switched to C#. Once you know .NET, the transition is not difficult - especially with the kind of hand-holding you get from intellisense.
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