In the last edition of Visual Studio Magazine, a reader-mail entry stated that he preferred VB.Net over C# because C# is ugly. Without entering that discussion, I find C# pretty at times. That reminded me of a an episode from high school. Our math teacher was ill and none of the regular replacement teachers were available. Instead we got a math professor from a university who stepped on late notice. I don’t remember much, but one thing got burnt into my memory. During that class she stood by the...