The TIOBE index report on programming language popularity each month picks one language for special attention, which in the December edition is Visual Basic.NET because it reached an all-time high.

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Although Microsoft programming languages fared quite well in Stack Overflow's huge new developer survey, Visual Basic 6 was again named the "most dreaded" language -- just like last year, and the year ...

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Long story short - what I thought I'd be able to do in Fedora 19 I can't because I'm just not proficient in it. I'm not an IT guy, I'm just trying to get myself back up to speed with VB.NET before I ...

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