[Duncan Mackenzie] Richard Grimes posted some fairly negative thoughts around .NET and VB.NET specifically, comments that Scott decided to reply to with his own post.

More on .NOT from Ricard Grimes, and a nice followup from Scott Swigart.

For me, it boils down to this: if I want to get something done fast, I can typically whip something out in .NET in a fraction of the time it takes to write native code. If I need to write something that I have total control, there’s no better tool that Win32 and C++.