VB gets respect and then some...
Keith Pleas' posting about VB getting respect reminds me of several commercial projects over a decade and a half. Prototypes in VB (to demonstrate to the business folks) often ended up as a production system. Consequently, in a short period of time, more was spent on maintenance than in the actual development. In quite a few of these projects, I was hired to redevelop the system using VC++/MFC.