C# is now a better language than Java

Re:C# is now a better language than Java by DrJokepu on Friday July 31, 2009 @12:13PM (#734696)

The C# ECMA Standard ( http://www.ecma-international.org/publications/files/ECMA-ST... ) mentions it several times that one of the main design goals of the C# language was familiarity to C++ programmers. Indeed C# borrowed a considerable portion of its syntax and keywords from C and C++. I suppose the same is true for Java as well.

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Re:C# is now a better language than Java by berntb on Friday July 31, 2009 @01:58PM (#734967)

The C# standards only mentions C/C++ and not Java?!

>>Indeed C# borrowed a considerable portion of its syntax and keywords from C and C++. I suppose the same is true for Java as well.

It seems really weird to me when you sound like C# was an independent development? I'm not an expert on either, but...

Didn't Microsoft even try some (/a few?) Java-clone before C#? And then we have that "embrace and extend Java" thing Microsoft tried first.

Is the ... hrm, inspiration... from Java in C# "the love that dare not speak its name"? :-)

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Re:C# is now a better language than Java by ido on Saturday August 01, 2009 @05:00AM (#736152)

> Didn't Microsoft even try some (/a few?) Java-clone before C#?

J#[1]? J++[2]?

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J_Sharp

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_J%2B%2B

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Re:C# is now a better language than Java by berntb on Saturday August 01, 2009 @05:34AM (#736177)

Thanks! Next time I'll just check this document linked from the J++ 'pedia page myself before asking.

http://www.ecis.eu/documents/Finalversion_Consumerchoicepape...

Page 16: Kill cross-platform Java by grow[ing] the polluted Java market. (Microsoft internal document.)

Etc etc, with references.

This document could be posted as a story on HN, if anyone wants lots of karma. :-)

We can say one thing for certain -- the "love" here is criminal and violent...

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Re:C# is now a better language than Java by messel on Friday July 31, 2009 @04:33PM (#735308)

ha, I think so berntb.

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