[wplug] C#

[Eli Heady]

On 11/21/05, Bill Moran <wmoran at potentialtech.com> wrote:
> 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#.
>

Deterring the (possibly immenent) "embrace and extend" scenario is
enough for me to overcome my innate curiosity that would otherwise
lead me to try running Mono.

I know boycotts aren't for everyone, but this one is for me.