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Microsoft’s developer strategy: C# for fancy features, Visual Basic for beginners

I don't know why they don't deprecate (but still support) both VBA and VB and just buy something like PYXLL for Excel integration and pump some support into IronPython for the CLR runtime, allowing ...
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Get rid of VB. Entirely (even that knock off VBA that still hangs on in Office products). If you can't learn C# (you don't have to know all the advanced features) then uh maybe programming isn't for ...