what language has grabbed people attention?

[dbarton]

I'm interested in a general purpose language for developing simple utilities and such manily for home use..

Is Visual Basic still around or has VB.NET replaced it? Anyone actually use VB.NET? Did it catch on?

Or it Micorsofts Visual Basic the one people are now using?

Or something alltogther different?

Help......

 

[mundane]

Took a course on C# 2.0, it grabbed my attention. I had been using Java2, Visual C++, and Python. You can still obtain the VS 2005 Beta C# Express from MS, might be something to look into. It has everything you need to make small windows based application (or web apps, etc).

 

[kamper]

Delphi's a sweet language for desktop app development. If you're a little more geeky then things like python and perl are cool.

 

[onelin]

Ruby. I finally heard the name one too many times and I decided to check it out and not be a skeptic associating it solely with python etc. I'm loving it completely and I think I'll be finding a long term relationship with Ruby on Rails as well There are some graphical tools for it, particularly VisualWx...but they don't seem all that intuitive (I haven't spent the time to make a barebones app with it yet) at first glance. Just figured I'd drop my most recent "wow" language in the past few months.