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Visual Basic on GNU/Linux

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the but-why-you-might-ask dept.

jeevesbond writes "The Mono Project announced that it has developed a Visual Basic compiler that will enable software developers who use Microsoft Visual Basic to run their applications on any platform that supports Mono, such as Linux, without any code modifications."

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  1. Re:OS X Intel? by smbarbour · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    I know I'll probably lose karma for this... but C# is essentially VB with C++ formatting.

    (I will concede that there are a number of things that C# has that VB still doesn't, but there are few differences otherwise.)