>Another viewpoint may consider VB a "higher level" language by comparing the language's built in features ... How about VB's ability to do implicit conversions, I would consider that a feature of a "high-level" language. I've also noticed that VB handles some of it's interfacing with objects in a “smarter” manner. For example try returning a key value that does not exist from the session object. VB will return an empty string where C# throws an error. In C# you must wrap the code with Try Catch to handle the missing key or session timeout.

Lots of good reasons, thanks. I was hoping I could get John to actually present relevent information like this at some point in the thread.