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 programming languages such as Java, Objective-C, and JavaScript garner the lion's share of attention these days, don't count out Microsoft's Visual Basic .Net (VB.Net), which has been on a ...