http://simonwillison.net/2012-01-03T10:40:00+00:00Simon Willison2012-01-03T10:40:00+00:002012-01-03T10:40:00+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2012/Jan/3/is-there-any-reason/#atom-tag

<p><em>My answer to <a href="https://www.quora.com/Is-there-any-reason-for-a-new-programmer-to-choose-C-over-VB-NET-or-vice-versa/answer/Simon-Willison">Is there any reason for a new programmer to choose C# over VB.NET (or vice versa)?</a> on Quora</em></p> <p>My understanding is that <span><a href="http://VB.NET">VB.NET</a></span> was mainly created to help make existing Visual Basic programmers more comfortable with the transition to .NET</p> <p>So if you aren't already a VB programmer, you would be much better off learning C# from the start.<br /></p> <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/csharp">csharp</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/programming">programming</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/visualbasic">visualbasic</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/quora">quora</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/computers">computers</a></p>

2007-05-03T22:29:32+00:002007-05-03T22:29:32+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2007/May/3/dlr/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="http://tirania.org/blog/archive/2007/May-03-1.html">Dynamic Language Runtime</a></strong></p> Miguel de Icaza describes how Microsoft’s new Dynamic Language Runtime lets you call JavaScript and Visual Basic functions from Ruby. Looks like they beat Parrot to the punch. <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/dlr">dlr</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/javascript">javascript</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/microsoft">microsoft</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/miguel-de-icaza">miguel-de-icaza</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/parrot">parrot</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/ruby">ruby</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/visualbasic">visualbasic</a></p>