John,
Knowing positively NOTHING about .NET, your last line confuses me a bit... if .NET is itself a "framework", why do you need your own "framework" on top of it? I thought that it's purpose (.NET's) was to expedite development by being the framework.
Thanks in advance
Jim
>John,
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>Ok - here's the new thread per your request
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>Re - my reasons for C# over VB .NET
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>1 - C# is cleaner - doesn't carry the legacy baggage that VB does - in fact some of the same things that make VB "more like VFP" encumber it.
>2 - My information is that C# runs about 10% faster in general (will actually ciomplile to MSIL more efficiently)
>3 - .NET Framework is C#
>4 - since C# is very much like JAVA - we're learning two languages at once and will be prepared if the world turns upside down and the misguided open source freedom fighters take over the planet.
>5 - And finally, if VB were the last language on earth, I'd give up software dev. and open a hot dog stand :-)
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>I believe that 90% of the battle of .NET is the framework/classes/ado/etc - things that are largely langauge independant. Ultimately, we could have compnenets written in either and I wouldn't care - but I'll do my framework in C# fro the reasons above.
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>Thanks,
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