Here at work we use ASP.NET, doing most of our coding in VB.NET. After a year and half of this, can I just say that I feel like VB.NET is rotting my brain? Sure, it’s a real language, but the more I use it the dumber I feel, like I’m not really programming at all. On the other hand, when I code in Python or Perl or Ruby (not that I’ve done all that much coding in any of these, but I’m starting to), I feel smarter. Is this just an anti-Microsoft emotional reflex, or is there something to it? I don’t know. I doubt it’s actually anti-Microsoft, because C# feels like more of a real language (and I can’t really say anything about it because I haven’t looked at it at all).
Regardless, I do know that I’d much rather code in Ruby or Python than in VB. Life is precious — why punish oneself? Oh, yeah, because that’s what everything runs on at work. ~sigh~ It’d be nice to convert everything over to Ruby on Rails, but alas, it’s probably not going to happen here.
[tags]ASP.NET, VB.NET, Python, Perl, Ruby, Ruby on Rails[/tags]
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