I learnt VB.net at college for Computing and i feel the same about it showing a lot of instant results, i went back and looked over what i had done then and think its all very goodBut after learning Java/C/C#/php its just too wordy now! and loops and if's etc just look messy as there isn't any braces.
After learning some php and Java, I took a bash at Perl.
Love it for some reason even though I haven't fully got to grips with it xD