I never liked .net. I bought the VS.NET after it came out but didn't like the editor/interface changes so I went back to my nice and comfy MSVC++ 6. I write to the Windows APIs so all the extra goop in .net isn't for me. I thought MFC (aka More F&%$ing Code) was bad enough, .net is huge.
This whole "save vb" thing is kind of silly. By now, any bugs have workarounds so updates aren't really needed.
Isn't it what you do with a language that's important, anyway?
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