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short ping to continue to push along the awareness and Greg’s earlier call to action in trying to help move forward community interest in Spec#. As Greg said, if we make some noise about how important we think this research is in allowing us to build better software then the more likely we are to get it and sooner rather than later. Please visit the original post and sign onto Greg’s list of interested parties and for good measure I will leave a few useful links here for you to check out some podcast and webcast presentations and discussions on the technology if your not yet familiar with Spec#.
Above I have included the Bumper Sticker to show your support
The Homepage
Hanselman Podcast
The Publications compressed into a single download
The MSDN Webcast
The Alt.Net presentation
I used to be a VB 4, 5, and 6 hacker back in the day and I will confess that when I first went down the .NET path I chose VB.Net as the language vehicle of learning. Shortly after developing my first .NET application I made the immediate decision to switch languages and decided to use C# as my first choice. The reasons were simple: I found the language more compact, more elegant to read and the resources for .NET in the early days seemed to far more abundant in C#.
From time to time I do choose to implement a component or two using VB.Net; this was simply to stay in touch with the language. Most recently I found this exercise a bit harder to stomach when I had to write some lambda’s in VB 9.0.
Dim dlo As DataLoadOptions = New DataLoadOptions()
dlo.LoadWith(Of Customer)(Function(c As Customer) c.Orders)
db.LoadOptions = dlo
Any more brackets and keywords and I would be ready to pick up my guitar to make a living. This code 
had me really thinking that I was glad to that my “checking in with VB.Net” was an occasional practice, in fact it got me to thinking that perhaps it was becoming a bit of waste of time and that the practice should be more about checking out a new language paradigm rather than another empirical statically typed language for the same platform. Enter the polyglot programmer debate. And so, the outcome is that I have made the determination that 
my spare “language time” will go into Ruby and F# having assigned some value to the idea that both functional and dynamic languages should be explored NOW and in some depth. Functional programming has caught my imagination quite a bit of late and I can see some real application in the document management domain where we constantly find ourselves dealing with large recursive trees of data that are immutable.
short ping to continue to push along the awareness and Greg’s earlier call to action in trying to help move forward community interest in Spec#. As Greg said, if we make some noise about how important we think this research is in allowing us to build better software then the more likely we are to get it and sooner rather than later. Please visit the original post and sign onto Greg’s list of interested parties and for good measure I will leave a few useful links here for you to check out some podcast and webcast presentations and discussions on the technology if your not yet familiar with Spec#.
