Microsoft Confirms My VB Assertions

Tom Archer, the MSDN Program Manager and Content Strategist for Windows Vista, the Windows SDK and Visual C++, seems to have confirmed my thoughts about VB programmers in a recent blog post in which he explains why so much of the example .NET code is written in VB. He first notes that there are many more VB programmers than C# or C++, but then goes into a more dubiuos explaination:

"These statistics show that the majority of C++ and C# developers are more
apt to read an article that contains Visual Basic.NET material than the reverse.
In other words, a very high percentage of Visual Basic developers will not read
an article if it contains C++ or C#. "

Translation: The C#/C++ programmers have no trouble with VB, but the VB programmers can't hack the C#/C++ examples.