Let's talk about Visual Basic.

We all know it is awkward, horrible, senseless, bloated and slow as fuck.

But why are there still so much market for it? What are the supposed advantages of using VB in commercial programming?

I'd understand to see VB jobs ten years ago, when C# was still infant, but now it's a slow-but-powerful language, and at least a little readable. You can work with it. So there's no bonus in using VB for the .NET Framework stuff.

Of course software maintenance is important, but it should be already time to at least rewrite VB stuff in C#...

ENTERPRISE SHITTINESS

>>2

No, seriously, >>2-kun. ASIDE from that.

>>1
It's virtuall the same as C#. It compiles down to the same CLR binaries, and I believe has a pretty much one-to-one mapping of a VB statement to a C# one. If one is from a VB6 and less background, it makes the transition to .net more simple, where as C# would be for those from a C++/Java background.