I said VB for the reason that you put forward - everyone hates it, but it does what it is meant to do very well (most of the time, anyway).
Rant
Flamewars in Advogato diarys, CPMers (my term for pre-DOS
attack people) vs the new users on K5. What's up with the
world? Slashdot is looking the sanest place to read at the
moment!