I can see that Lets work on  rewording of the thesis statements to better reflect what the bullet points can directly tell us vs what can be inferred from that How about this I think it gets rid of unsourced conjecture and replaces the concept of adoption with activity which I think is much less of a deduction based on the bullets    Both C and VBNet have high adoption rates and very active developer communities and Microsoft fully supports both communities However C does have an advantage in terms of the level of community activity on the Internet Also there are more books available for C than VBNet and publishers report that C books significantly outsell the VBNet counterparts