Differences between Java and Visual Basic?

Well really all programming languages are essentially very similar! You get different levels of programming languages though! Languages like C++ are called low level, because they tend
to mess with things based on bits and memory, whereas a language like C# or Visual basic is more high level, management based. I guess the main difference is that Java tends to be more low level than Visual Basic. Also, Java gives you more opportunity to utilise object oriented programming, if you like abstract code! There are some really good tutorials on Java out there!

Well really all programming languages are essentially very similar! You get different levels of programming languages though! Languages like C++ are called low level, because they tend
to mess with things based on bits and memory, whereas a language like C# or Visual basic is more high level, management based. I guess the main difference is that Java tends to be more low level than Visual Basic. Also, Java gives you more opportunity to utilise object oriented programming, if you like abstract code! There are some really good tutorials on Java out there!

Interesting post. I would say
- Programming languages may be similar or incredibly different. The variation is quite incredible. Consider assembly, c, java, lisp, haskell, verilog...all very different.
- Java and Visual Basic (.NET) are very similar indeed. The main difference is in a) syntax and b) libraries. Why do you think Java is lower level? VB is very much an OO language as well.

VB.net is just as OO as Java.

I'd assume he's getting at the fact that Java lets mess with memory directly.

This would be a bit odd given Java is garbage collected. Source/example?

Are the platforms they run on a main difference as well? I thought I read that somewhere...

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