Personally, I wee it more like the bad old days before "Option explicit" and "Option strict" being turned on and every variable being declared as "dim x" with n

Personally, I wee it more like the bad old days before "Option explicit" and "Option strict" being turned on and every variable being declared as "dim x" with no type. Sure, that then used a variant in the background, but the chaos it installed is what scares the crap out of some shops with regards to "var" and C#. If you were a good VB.Net citizen, you always newed up your variables like : "dim x as new Y()".