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The obvious choice for anyone who has tried a few languages should probably have been C#, but personally, if it was my choice to make and the team was experienc
by eitland 7y ago
The obvious choice for anyone who has tried a few languages should probably have been C#, but personally, if it was my choice to make and the team was experienced in Visual Foxpro I'd probably choose VB.Net if they wanted it.
The alternative would be C#.
Full disclosure:
Languages sorted by when I learned them:
- Basic
- Visual Basic
- C
- Assembly
- Java (well, I "learned" that I was hopelessly ineffective with it. Still got a B.)
- Javascript
- Python
- PHP
- AutoHotKey
- Java (actually learned it)
- Perl
- Delphi
- C#
- VB.Net
Reasons:
Once I actually understood the value of a real typed language there's no way I'll go back except for scripting and small one-offs.
- kstrauser 7y agoThing is, there was only one person there who was really maintaining the VFP stuff. We'd already done the switch for everything else. I agree about strongly typed languages. I'd never give Python and its strong typing to switch to a scripting language.