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Is Visual Basic a Good Beginner's Language?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the would-you-write-"hello-world"-in-it dept.

Austin Milbarge asks: "Ever since the .NET framework came along a few years ago, Microsoft had promised VB developers that their language would finally be taken seriously. To be honest, I never understood why some non-VB developers thought of VB as a 'toy' language, but that is for another article. Anyways, Microsoft made good on their promise and transformed VB from an easy to learn language into an object oriented power house, with lots of OOP functionality thrown in. The old VB has been discontinued, and the new VB is no longer a simple language. With all the fancy changes, is VB still the great beginner's language it once was? Would you recommend it to a beginner over C#?"

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  1. No. by Vorx · · Score: 0, Redundant

    No. That was easy. Nothing to see here, move along, move along

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