C# appreciation thread

How many of you guys prefer coding in C#? I feel that C# is the best language for quickly coding programs for windows, and with managed directx there's tons of awesome stuff you can do. I just started my computer-education this autumn, and we're being forced to make stuff in java. Java and C# are pretty much identical, only C# has more functionality (WHY doesn't java have properties? X| ), has the infitely superior development environment ('cause remembering the syntax of your programming language is SO last paradigm), and, in my experience, runs a good deal faster than java.

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On a basic level, C# and Java are similar, but the deeper you learn the language the more differences you'll find.  I, personally, prefer C# due to some of the language features (and especially some of the *upcoming* language features--- C# is slowly evolving into a much more modern language than its immediate peers. Type inferencing, lambda expressions, and extension methods, oh my!), but Java's been around longer and allows more easily consistent development no matter what sort of computer you, as a student, happen to be using at home.

I, personally, am of the school of thought where a student's first language should be some sort of assembler, and higher level languages are built up from there.  If you've written "Hello World" in Sparc assembly, you'll be thanking your lucky stars you get to work in C or Java.  Heh.