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Re:The Birth of Visual Basic (2006) by jfroma on Friday October 10, 2014 @06:28PM (#8440374)
For all the vb.net detractors, I'd suggest you this blog post "in defense of vb.net"

http://bugsquash.blogspot.com.ar/2013/02/in-defense-of-vbnet...

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Re:The Birth of Visual Basic (2006) by noblethrasher on Friday October 10, 2014 @07:38PM (#8440613)
Even though I'm a C#/F# programmer, I'll offer a better defense of VB.Net:

* Method resolution (I actually prefer C#'s but I can see the advantages of VB)

* XML Literals

* Many more query comprehension operators than C#

* Don't have to put `Select` at the end of a query comprehension expression

* Filtered Exceptions (coming in C# 6)

* Ability to call module functions without fully qualifying the name

* The `WithEvents` and `Handles` keywords

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