If you are building Enterprise or Desktop applications using managed code for the .NET or JVM runtimes, then yes, all languages are the same. You can build any .net application in any .net language and I guess the same applies to java and java languages because at the end you use the same Framework/libraries. Of course if you compare low level programming with high level programming it is true that you need to chose a native language which is "logic".

"it isn't the language, you can write good or bad code in any language" That is totally true, however: "But, VB makes writing bad code trivial, and writing good code challenging." I guess you are talking about old VB. Right? VB1-6 or vbscript? because VB.NET is exactly the same than... let's say C#. The differences is only the much more verbose syntax.