[AccessD] OT: DevConnections interesting notes

VB's elegance is in the skill of the programmer not the name of the
tool.  I like the idea of giving them the same features and letting the
programmer decide which is more comfortable to use, and maybe it will
stop the idea that somehow you're only a "real" programmer if you use
C#.  

As for continuation characters, that one baffles me a bit unless they're
introducing some kind of block mechanism so you can break an overly long
line without the continuation character.  That's all I use them for
anyhow.

Charlotte Foust

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Wow, this is starting to look like the same decision-making process that
went into "the ribbon" !

> ... C# will get ... features of Visual Basic and vice sersa
WHY ?

> ... optional and named parameters in C#
WHAT TOOK SO LONG ?

> ... and the end of continuation characters in Visual Basic
WHY ?

> ... you need more skills in C# or Visual Basic (emphasis mine)
The first part I agree with, However....
VB.NET should be renamed VOBOL or VBOL or something similar to the
so-verbose and unwieldy and not-so-elegant COBOL language. It's not
really VB anymore.