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Show HN: Thoreau BASIC – What if BASIC hadn't gone out of fashion?

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qingcharles · 1791075263 · focus · HN ↗
I was writing BASIC code for everything until a few years ago -- VB.NET -- until it was really clear that it had become a totally second-class citizen and I switched to C#.
I still think VB.NET is vastly more readable than C/C#/Java etc.
1. christophilus · 1791079865 · focus · HN ↗
  It’s been 2nd class for a long time, but I loved it back in the early 2000s.
  1. pasc1878 · 1791098957 · focus · HN ↗
    VB.NET was always second class to c#.
    Unfortunately it was a one-to-one match to C#.
    It would have been much netter if it was based on Visual Basic 6
    bazoom42 · 1791105464 · focus · HN ↗
    > VB.NET was always second class to c#
    VB.NET and C# was treated as equals for a long time. I believe MS initially expected VB.NET to be the mainstream .net language, while C# was a compromise to attract Java and Delphi users.
    But the transition from VB to VB.NET was not handled well. VB was very well liked by its users (even if non-users looked down on it) but VB.NET was worst of both worlds. Too different from VB to be smooth upgrade, and still nok considered as professional a language as C#

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