Visual Basic

A good friend of mine loves preaching to me that VB is the best language out there. I have just begun my programming career, so I'm not experienced enough to argue with him on the subject. All I have done so far is learned some C in a few of my college classes. What do you all think about VB? If you hate it, give me some arguments to throw at him so I can be ready next time he brings it up.

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VB is good for developing Windows interfaces, it invokes fragments of BASIC code when the user performs certain operations on graphical objects on-screen.
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BASIC has become the leading cause of brain-damage in proto-hackers.

It's a piece of shit
My favourite (admittedly retarded) argument is that it uses <> instead of !=, which is just stupid for data other than numbers.

VB is a third rate 90s scripting language, the PHP of application programming. I guess it's the best thing in the world if your only other option is eating sand. VB.NET is not exactly the same as the old VB; VB.NET is basically C# with a dumber syntax, and C# is actually not that bad. I still wouldn't feed my dog with it.

>>7
You mean like virtually every programmer on the internet?
Yes. And also the ones not on the internet. And in fact a whole lot of people who aren't programmers as well.
Though I must admit, >>6, I really did think you were going to spout any arguments you got as if you yourself had the experience to back them up.
Anyway, VB.NET or plain VB matters. Old VB is so full of failure and on error resume next that you can pick any line of code, look up the semantics of the statement, and there's your argument right there.
With VB.NET it's more a matter of C# being superior in every way, as every single compromise made with classic VB must necessarily be for the worse. (VB.NET programmers will readily admit that VB 6 had a lot of faults.)