C# vs VB.NET

Kirk (one of my new colleagues at Xero) and Phil (one of my old colleagues at Trade Me - Phil, where’s your blog?) have organised a C# vs. VB.NET debate for the Wellington .NET users group tonight.

Should be fun.

My predictions:

• Most of the audience will be C# developers;
• Few of them will have ever used VB.NET in anger;
• Despite that, they will have already convinced themselves somehow that VB.NET is inferior;
• None, if challenged, would be able to build anything using C# that Phil couldn’t build just as well in VB.

Meanwhile, important problems remain unsolved.

🙂

Update: I’ve responded to some of the comments and emails generated by this post in a subsequent post called Parlez vous Anglais?