Imports System
Imports System.Linq
Public Class Program
Public Shared Sub Main()
Dim str As String = "VB.NET is a multi-paradigm object-oriented programming language"
Dim firstletters As String = String.Join(" ", str.Split(" "c).ToList().ConvertAll(Function(word) word.Substring(0, 1)))
Console.Write(firstletters)
End Sub
End Class
' run:
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' V i a m o p l
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