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Re: C# papers

Author:Eric Kidd
Posted:6/26/2000; 5:50:11 PM
Topic:C# papers
Msg #:18129 (In response to 18101)
Prev/Next:18128 / 18130

I don't understand the point of C# at all. I was hoping, when I first saw reports of this, that C|Net's reporter had conflated new features of Visual Studio 7 with the old COOL rumors, and that the other reports were just cribbing off of C|Net. Unfortunately, that's not true.

C# has a number of virtues (and some random oddities). To make a long story short, it's a slightly tweaked relative of Java, and it claims to play nicely with existing C code. It uses native compilation, of course.

The manual doesn't mention SOAP or XML at all (although it talks about COM quite a bit). So I'm guessing the XML support must live in a standard library somewhere.

So, if:

...C# might be a good idea. You could probably modify an existing C/C++ compiler to support C# (using the same techniques Cygnus used to implement GCJ), and use the Boehm GC to get garbage collection running.

If Microsoft pushes hard enough, we'll probably see C# everywhere. Expect amazing amounts of hype, most of which will be even more misleading than Sun's. ;-)

Cheers,
Eric



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