DotNet's Question

What does /prog/ thinks about .NET technologies? Is giving your soul to Microsoft worth instead of selling it to Sun?

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You're not giving your soul to either company.
C# is a better Java. It has its uses, it has a large library. The language is okay, but isn't the best. If you want an average high-level OOP language with a huge library, it's fine.

>>2
C# is a better Java

it could be hardly a worse one, could it?

>>3
>>2
I am dubious about this /prog/ things.
Why so angst with Java? I know i has not a very good performance, but to begginers and simple programs is a good choice.
And, why responding every post with sage?

>>4
The forced boxing/unboxing with generic types
The forced split between objects and primitives
The forced ENTERPRISEATION of the code

>>5
The forced split between objects and primitives
Oh you like Python better?

>>4
That's the point.  Despite appearances, Java is not a good beginner programming language.  It is a fair intermediate language because it handles a lot of things in the background that, perhaps, the programmer would like to not have to think about but those are essential things to understanding how an application operates.

This is not to say good languages are by definition taught in a "good" way.  My college C/C++ instructor was resistant to malloc and such other memory allocation functions.  Due to that, I was under a poor assumption for half a year that arrays in the language(s) had to have predetermined constant size.

The forced ENTERPRISEATION of the code
Not sure I understand you on how that point (how it's forced, that is).

>>8
Forced single-dispatch OOP at least.

>>4
ONE WORD public static Integer main (public static final Integer argc, public static final String argv)

>>6
No, I like C# better, where int and Integer are the same thing.

>>10
How about public static BufferedReader cin = new BufferedReader(new InpuStreamReader(System.in))?
You may now accept user input
Seriously

>>10
In java main is by convention declared, i think, as
public static void main(String[] args)

also, void

>>10
Java is the second worst language in mainstream use today, but at least get your criticism right, for fuck's sake.

>>14
What's the worst language?

>>15
Perl.

>>16 is an EXPERT PHP PROGRAMMER

>>17
PHP is a Perl.

EXPERT THREAD DERAILING

>>18
PHP MY ANUS

>>14
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=exaggeration

>>21
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=being%20wrong

 If a set is too large to be put in one to one correspondence with the positive integers, it is called uncountable. Cantor's views prevailed and modern mathematics accepts actual infinity. Certain extended number systems, such as the hyperreal numbers, incorporate the ordinary (finite) numbers and infinite numbers of different sizes.