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Whether VB is better than C# is not the whole story unless people have already made the bigger decision that only MS should be considered. IMHO Python is something VFP'ers really need to at least glance at wrt dotNET.
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It could be except that I am not interested in the question of whether VB is/is not better than C#. Moreover, I am not interested in trying to formulate per se rules for any language that is based on the CLR...


>I guess I was also interested that some Java people are interested in dotNET but there seems to be very little interest in Java from this direction.
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>Some might observe that the real comparison should be between J2EE and dotNET. Certainly J2EE is regarded as a corporate standard more widely than you might think.
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It could be. Then again, I develop for the Windows platform - so I for the most part, I don't too much about the world outside of .NET...