Since their introduction in 2002, Microsoft’s pair of .NET programming languages, C# and Visual Basic.NET, have been close siblings. Although they look very different—one uses C-style braces, brackets ...
The TIOBE index report on programming language popularity each month picks one language for special attention, which in the December edition is Visual Basic.NET because it reached an all-time high.
Is VB really worth the continued maintenance effort? C# is going to be popular with game developers forever thanks to XNA and Unity (and more or less deserves to be), but it's hard to imagine that VB ...