[wplug] C#

[Bill Moran]

Logan Stack <ascii at psu.edu> wrote:

> One of my friends here at college is a Microsoft fanboy and has been 
> raving about C# to me. I like some of its features and syntax better 
> than Java.
> 
> C# and .Net are apparently part of the ECMA standard, and the Mono 
> project gives them support in Linux and Mac OS. Is there any lingering 
> "evil" on C#? Any reason I shouldn't use it on a new project?
> 
> The only reason I can see is that it is (much) less likely that someone 
> will have Mono installed than the JVM.

That's a good reason.

Besides that, and the possibility that the Evil Empire may decide to
"embrace and extend", I don't see any problems.

And I agree that there are syntactic improvements over Java that exist
in C#.

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Bill Moran
Potential Technologies
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