That's exactly true, and it's the "basic" that's given people the perception it must be a toy language and no real developer would use it.Originally Posted by spoon_
Echo, however, I find that the majority of programmers who dislike Visual Basic dislike it because it has the word basic it it's name. Don't you know they're way to good to learn anything that has basic in it?
I wouldn't go as far as to call VB.Net "basic" as its got all of the complexities & idiosyncracies of C#, but people will consider C# with an open mind because it has C in its name.
I tend to shy away from people that dislike VB for inappropriate reasons.
Same deal with Java, people hate it because it's "slow," yet don't understand that it's run on a virtual machine, yielding portability not seen in C/C++.
Language haters suck.
This is a great place to argue that the best developers use whatever tool lets them get the job done right, not whichever tool makes their ego bigger.
If you do want a really useful programming language though, look at this one:
http://compsoc.dur.ac.uk/whitespace/index.php
