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September 21st 2005

VB or C# for .NET?

The eternal quandry - VB 'cause plenty of people understand it or C# 'cause it's a "grown-up's" coding language?

Presently this project is being written in both. The worst part of this is switching between the languages... Here, for my tuppence-worth is my assessment of the differences:

VB
C#
+ Great autocomplete + Brief and minimalist code
+ Event handling without thinking + XML documentation from code
- Continual compile (wastes a lot of time!) (plus breaks down a lot necessitating a rebuild) + Much more suited to OOP classes - I don't like the difference between a function and a procedure, or the New instead of constructor
- .item() rather than []  
+ Dim x as new thingi - neat!  

but at the end of the argument - most of the code is .this.that.the_other, calling 'stuff' from .NET and your own code, the differences are minor in comparison to the similarities...

Given the choice though, I'd code in C#!

 

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