I’m listening to .NET Rocks! live in Austin right now (you can download it here)
I enjoyed listening to Jeffrey Palermo and Scott Bellware, as I read their blogs often.
I’d just like to vent about this moron:
.. who said “C# Sucks!” live on the air. His name is Leeman Schmitt. Obviously this guy is incredibly narrow-minded, and cannot easily understand (let alone take advantage of) the differences and superiorities of another language. VB.NET, while a great language, is not the panacea of development. I get completely annoyed when someone is tied so tightly to ONE particular viewpoint on a problem.
I believe it was Scott Hanselman who said, “C# and VB.NET are just different flavors of IL” – I couldn’t agree with this more.
Given the choice, I will choose C# because that’s what I prefer. I don’t push it on anyone else, I don’t claim that it’s the best, or that everything else sucks. I am perfectly happy to work on a project in VB.NET because I am versatile. I would be happy to use PHP or Ruby, or JSP for that matter, since I believe being multi-faceted benefits my work in ALL languages.
I have been hearing a lot of this whiny attitude toward C# lately. I wouldn’t hire anyone if they couldn’t program comfortably in VB.NET and C#. I would also frown upon anyone who would just JUMP to using a particular technology for every problem they come across.
Anyway, I cast my blogvote to C#, thought I still respect any language or tool that will help me work productively.
Ok, I’m done ranting… flame on 
Ed: Ok, so I was a little harsh. Apparently there was more to this story. So Leeman, no offense… I just get really worked up about this topic