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Re:Why did Microsoft create C#? Wasn't Java good enough in t... by pjmlp on Sunday February 11, 2018 @01:16PM (#16353891)
Java also ended up copying quite a few features of C# back.

- Boxing

- annotations

- StringBuilder

- LINQ

- var (coming with 10)

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Re:Why did Microsoft create C#? Wasn't Java good enough in t... by scarface74 on Monday February 12, 2018 @01:14PM (#16360566)
Java didn't copy Linq. It copied Linq syntax. Linq is not just about syntax it's about expression trees or "code as data".

http://www.dotnettricks.com/learn/linq/understanding-express...

A Linq expression can be translated at runtime to allow the same code to be tranlated to Sql for an RDMS , MongoQuery, or anything else that you write a provider for.

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Re:Why did Microsoft create C#? Wasn't Java good enough in t... by polskibus on Sunday February 11, 2018 @01:41PM (#16354028)
How does Java linq look like?
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Re:Why did Microsoft create C#? Wasn't Java good enough in t... by marxama on Sunday February 11, 2018 @04:01PM (#16354776)
IMO it's completely inferior to LINQ in C#. One of the main reasons being that Java still lacks extension methods, so you're stuck with the methods that are provided for you. In C#, if I want a Dedupe in my LINQ method call chain, I can simply implement it myself.
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Re:Why did Microsoft create C#? Wasn't Java good enough in t... by looperhacks on Sunday February 11, 2018 @01:47PM (#16354068)
I think he's referring to the Stream-API
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Re:Why did Microsoft create C#? Wasn't Java good enough in t... by pjmlp on Sunday February 11, 2018 @02:17PM (#16354227)
It is the Stream API.
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Re:Why did Microsoft create C#? Wasn't Java good enough in t... by Max-q on Sunday February 11, 2018 @01:39PM (#16354019)
Annotations are a Java innovation.

Edit: this is not correct. My bad.

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Re:Why did Microsoft create C#? Wasn't Java good enough in t... by pjmlp on Sunday February 11, 2018 @02:16PM (#16354224)
C# Attributes were introduced in .NET 1.0. Released in 2002. Betas were available already during 2001.

Java annotations started to be discussed in 2002, with JSR-175, finally delivered with Java 1.5, released in 2004.

So how come it is a Java innovation?

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Re:Why did Microsoft create C#? Wasn't Java good enough in t... by Max-q on Sunday February 11, 2018 @03:10PM (#16354494)
You are absolutely right. My bad.
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