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 ...

Visual Basic 6 (VB6), introduced in 1998, was a major step forward in programming, particularly for Windows applications.

I haven't kept up with C# lately, but hearing that Microsoft is adding tuples and pattern matching to the language confirms my earlier opinion that it's basically a big kitchen sink into which ...