I like perl and all, but c# inside visual studio.net is the best development platform of all time. It is just so fucking sick, nothing can compare. As much as some people hate microsoft, they sure make programming pleasant.
spreading code out onto multiple lines just makes it easier to read, easier to comment, easier to maintain, and easier to get the project done closer to the deadline. scripting languages are a waste of time if you are trying to do anything important such as hundreds to thousands of pageview per second server farms, or complicated windows applications.
I’m talking applications with over 100,000 lines of source code developed by four to five developers.