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Aww, c'on, guys...I'm two years younger than dirt and programmed with Visual Basic since it came out back in the early '90's, yet I've been adapting to language changes since the late '60's. I've written books on Visual Basic, including .NET and just finished my 14th book on C#, another .NET language and it really is time to let VB6.0 die a graceful death. Further, programmer age has little to do with this issue...it's interest and desire that makes me stay up with the power curve. If anything, I think "the language race" helps keep me young!

another .NET language and it really is time to let VB6.0 die a graceful death.

What then do you make of the common complaints about .NET? Is it a capable platform for development? Can you as easily and reliably perform all the tasks required and mastered in the 'visual programming' languages with .NET? The answer determines whether or not one should even complain, or worry, or expect a stock price plummet. Because it obviously all depends on whether the complaints are justified.