C# is the Next Python: Duck Typing and C# 4.0

Re:C# is the Next Python: Duck Typing and C# 4.0 by DenisM on Saturday November 08, 2008 @07:43PM (#357946)

C# has adopted a lot from dynamic languages like python: "lazy" genexp ("yield return" in C#), lambda, map/filter/reduce (LInQ) and now Duck Typing. The nice thing is that now you can program dynamically or statically and inter-operate between the two styles and the framework.

There are still couple of problems that it would need to overcome to become my favorite language of all times:

1. Windows Tax.

2. Brevity. C# is just more verbose than python even with LINQ et al.

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Re:C# is the Next Python: Duck Typing and C# 4.0 by justindz on Saturday November 08, 2008 @08:29PM (#357965)

Amen on #2. Since brevity isn't just aesthetics, this has always been a problem for me. The last thing I built in C# was the last thing I built in C# because it became hard/annoying to maintain and debug, even with VS.

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