Re: What the hell is C-Sharp?
From: Perfect Reign (theperfectreign_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 02/24/05
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Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2005 11:19:17 -0800
On 23 Feb 2005 11:13:01 -0500, someone posing as Jerry Sievers donned
fireproof bloomers and chiseled in the wall:
> <venting>
> Fellow coders;
>
> I just get off the phone today with some clueless headhunter and after
> listing for her (very proudly I might add) my OS and dev tools
> platforms of choice;
>
> Linux/Apache/Postgres/PHP
>
> I get a few moments of silence and she mentiones to me some new wizzy
> bang dev languages including C-Sharp. Oh and you bet she asks me if I
> an a DotNetter.No, I reply quizically as if to ask, why on earth would
> I ever need that?
>
> She goes on to say that the tools I am using are "older tools" and
> that I should consider crash courses in these so called "up to date
> languages". Oh this is precious.
LOL!
If you haven't heard from the other posts, C#
(http://msdn.microsoft.com/vcsharp/) is part of MS's .NET initiave. It was
actually released to the ECMA as a standard in '02
(http://www.ecma-international.org/publications/standards/Ecma-334.htm).
It ia - like Java - a semi-compiled language in that a binary IL is created
and exectued by a runtime. Microsoft's thing is that a programmer could
write in any language - C#, VB.NET, COBOL - that has a dot net
implementation and have it run on a given platform.
It is all the rage.
We were just discussing this issue. I work with a group of roughly 100
programmers for a large county. Although the majority of coding is and has
been done in COBOL, almost all of our client-server stuff had been done in
VB and then VB/ASP.
A large discussion is going on as to what language should be adopted as
"the standard" for future development. Because a sizable block of
programmers are familiar with VB - and ONLY VB - they are recommending dot
net be THE programming language. I've brought up Java, C++ and PHP as
alternatives, but this is falling on deaf ears.
In addition, if you look around you won't find many jobs with employers
actively seeking PHP developers, even though it is - IMO - more flexible
than dot net.
Mono is - in fact - a cross-platform implementation of C# dot net. Miguel
de Icaza, who wrot Gnome, is behind this effort.
(http://www.mono-project.com/about/index.html) I haven't tried it
personally, but I see it popping up more often.
You can see an example, here - http://sky-net.sourceforge.net/ - this is a
recently announced MONO application.
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