>>If you have no experience in either, VB will probably be easier to pick up because of the syntactic similiarities.
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>Thanks George. I was just more curious than anything at this point, although I have Kevin's book but haven't had time to read it.

Mel,

I've read Kevin's book more than once. My best advice would be to make some time to read it.

>Another thing you might be able to answer, is J## now a language in .NET like C## and VB.NET? I couldn't quite discern this from the Microsoft web site.
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I think that this question has been answered quite well already for you in this thread.