Thanks for the info. I have written in C, machine language, FORTRAN and Visual Basic. The only one I liked was Visual Basic. It’s good to know that C# has your approval. I might play with it just to dust off my skills.
I’m pretty anal retentive when programming, so C# appeals to me. Just write a program using the standard formatting (Visual Studio will even format for you) and it is very clean and readable. Contrast Perl, ugly, hard to read no matter what, although a very powerful language for its purpose. You can’t do everything in C#, like low-level stuff. You’re running in a managed environment so you can’t play fast and loose with pointers and other such things. OTOH, all that’s taken care of in the environment, and you don’t really need pointers.
I still like machine language though, at least old 8-bit.