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I kind of have to question whether that guy has any clue about what he's doing, though. He seemed to be totally lost on the concept of managed C++ vs unmanaged C++ for VC.NET, for instance...

Hmm, so VB owns interpreted/byte code languages? Not very surprising. It's still twice as slow as C++... And his I/O test of writing lines to a text file is a rather bad test of I/O performance. He probably didn't use large buffers and overlapped I/O, which are performance enhancements easier accessible from C++ than from VB (that's to say they're very hard to use in VB compared to in C++)...

lol, one of my housemates applied for an internship at that company... :)

Python's float math is so terrible, don't even get me started.

EDIT: changed long to float