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I taught myself to code late in life on VB.net - amazing how easy and powerful to get going. I've done a decent amount in C# since then. When I think about C# syntax vs VB.net syntax, and consider it's all .NET under the hood, makes me wonder whether developers like feeling as though they are writing something more complex in C# than they are. Anyway, i'm indebted to Microsoft and will be a fan for life as a result.

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Fresh out of college (2004), I worked at a company that was a VB.NET shop and one of the tasks I started with was porting a bunch of ASP (not .Net) pages to ASP.NET using VB.NET.

I absolutely loved the language, coming from a Java/C++ education in college.

Then, my next job, it was a mix of VB.NET, PHP, and C# (custom software shop). I did all three and decided that C# was where I wanted to be. I simply found that VB.NET was too "wordy" with all of the "If/End If" and "Get/End Get" and "List(of Foo)". I just found it easier to follow with if(eq){}, Get{}, and List<Foo>.

Simply one's own taste, I suppose.

I personally just found the C# syntax more straightforward than VB.NET, C# was new and VB seemed to have a bit of baggage. I never had much in the way of problems, even as a beginner, translating from VB.NET to C# examples though.

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