VB.NET

Question

I know VB was huge, and many wannabe-programmers made a very good living slopping apps together in VB6, but why would Microsoft carry over so much of that into VB.NET? The reason I'm venting here is because I have a coworker who is taking a beginning VB.NET class. Rather than teaching Objects, and good codiing practices, that are hacking it up the same way VB6 used to do. And Microsoft has enabled them to do so but keeping the syntax of Subs and Functions around. Here I am trying to explain to my coworker what a constructor is, what a method is (as opposed to a function) and I'm just confusing her more because the language itself has not lent itself to actually presenting what is going on under the hood. Okay, I'm just venting... -James