Since their introduction in 2002, Microsoft's pair of .NET programming languages, C# and Visual Basic.NET, have been close siblings. Although they look very different—one uses C-style braces, brackets ...

I work in C# now after many years in C/C++. Although I like some of the lamba syntax sugar, it's basically an unpleasant language -- most of the hassle of C++, little of the benefit of higher level ...