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and weaknesses. For example, some programming languages offer excellent intrinsic support for

advanced mathematical processing. Others offer superior support for financial calculations, logical

calculations, interaction with mainframe computers, and so forth. When you take the strengths of a

particular programming language and then incorporate the benefits provided by the .NET platform,

everybody wins.

Of course, in reality the chances are quite good that you will spend much of your time building

software using your .NET language of choice. However, once you master the syntax of one .NET

language, it is very easy to learn another. This is also quite beneficial, especially to the software con-

sultants of the world. If your language of choice happens to be C#, but you are placed at a client site

that has committed to Visual Basic .NET, you are still able to leverage the functionality of the .NET

Framework, and you should be able to understand the overall structure of the code base with mini-

mal fuss and bother. Enough said.