<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://hci.social/@chrisamaphone" class="u-url mention">@<span>chrisamaphone</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@shriramk" class="u-url mention">@<span>shriramk</span></a></span> The example I used to use (it’s less true today) was that VB.NET and C# had largely the same semantics but different syntax. At the time Microsoft had more or less an official policy of keeping it that way and most people were familiar with the example.</p>