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>Probably because NT, Office and many other things are written in C++... Unless they come up with something better... and, well, J++ was just dropped.

J++ being dropped is pure speculation at this point. IMO, VB will not be dropped. It is too important to MS.

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>Java is the only langague I have read about which compiles smaller, and runs faster than C++ code but requires less code to be written.

Write once, debug anywhere is not my idea of a great language.

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