I want to become more proficient at one of these two languages. But which one is more widely used in the industry?
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jsampsonPC
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By my experience, C#. Not to mention, it seems as though you get paid more for it too
It looks and feels like a
real programming language to the suits. -
dahat
inanity makes my head hurt
I too am a C# fan and have personally seen it used more... but sadly most of the people I end up teaching .NET (I do a little MCT training here and there) end up wanting to learn (in) VB.NET.
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Zeus
Why is the caption missing??
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jsampsonPC
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Zeus wrote:C#++
That would be an interesting language
(Yes, I know you were just agreeing in geek-lingo)
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dahat
inanity makes my head hurt
I should mention that it would not be a bad thing to be proficient at both. While under the hood they both do the same thing, VB .NET is getting some pretty nifty features (like xml literals) that us C# folks are going to pray for in C# 4.0... in the mean time we’ll just have to write our XML handling code in VB.NET.
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Thanks for the replies. I've already started in on a C# book, but I was curious if I was on the right track or not.
P.S. Why are all the job boards I look at full of contract jobs (Dice, etc.)? Where's the permanent work doing this? -
Tensor
Im in yr house upgrading yr family
Both are good languages with unique features. If widely used is an important reason for learning one then C# seems more popular.
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Zeus
Why is the caption missing??
hehe ... it would actuallyjsampsonPC wrote:
Zeus wrote:
C#++
That would be an interesting language
(Yes, I know you were just agreeing in geek-lingo)
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pathfinder
Hard work never killed anybody, but why take a chance?
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C#. It's popular for a lot of really stupid reasons, but nonetheless it's popular.
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What about TickleSharp ?
I'm kidding, hahaha.
Depends, I think.
I've seen just about as many VB positions as C#.
I think industry may have something to do with language as well.
For instance, most of the financial shops I've been to use C#, while most of the Insurance shops seem to use VB.NET.
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Learn both. Learning the language isn't the time consuming part anymore, its the framework.
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And how long should I expect that to take? Assuming I can only work on this "after hours". I already know a decent amount of C++.nightski wrote:Learn both. Learning the language isn't the time consuming part anymore, its the framework.
Java: blech. -
RoyalSchrubber
One. How many time travellers does it take to change a lightbulb?
pathfinder wrote:Java
Lisp -
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Peek-a-boo
RoyalSchrubber wrote:pathfinder wrote:
Java
Lisp
COBOL.Net
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Cornelius Ellsonpeter wrote:
And how long should I expect that to take? Assuming I can only work on this "after hours". I already know a decent amount of C++.nightski wrote:
Learn both. Learning the language isn't the time consuming part anymore, its the framework.
Java: blech.
I agree with learning them both and the framework will take more time.
Start with C# then move on to VB. A year or more at least.
Use the Murach books.
http://www.murach.com/books/index.htm
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