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All Things Microsoft => Microsoft as a Company => Topic started by: Xeen on 23 January 2004, 18:56

Title: Microsoft will cause programming havoc
Post by: Xeen on 23 January 2004, 18:56
First there was the C# language that MS made, which is basically a ripoff of C++ and Java. Now they're moving further.

 
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I hope you guys have mastered C#, because Microsoft is working to replace it with yet another C-like programming language. Dubbed Xen (previously X#), the new language melds C# with XML and SQL support, and to be fair, if done correctly, it will be a superset of C#, prompting me to wonder if the company won't wisely just market it as a new C# version whenever it ships. Otherwise, the company risks alienating C# users as it did to Visual Basic users when it moved from the simple VB 6.0 language to the more complicated Visual Basic .NET version.


As a computer science student, this ticks me off. MS is doing nothing but creating more uncompatibility in the programming world. Fuck them assholes.
Title: Microsoft will cause programming havoc
Post by: Refalm on 23 January 2004, 22:18
The XML integration in C# was already annoying... just typing comments? No sorry, it's got to be in XML.

I'm learning C# at school, after our management thought it was better for us to learn something "newer" than C++. I hate my school.
Title: Microsoft will cause programming havoc
Post by: mobrien_12 on 23 January 2004, 23:20
Where is this from, please?
Title: Microsoft will cause programming havoc
Post by: Xeen on 23 January 2004, 23:25
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Originally posted by M. O'Brien:
Where is this from, please?


http://www.winnetmag.com/windowspaulthurrott/Article/ArticleID/41532/windowspaulthurrott_41532.html (http://www.winnetmag.com/windowspaulthurrott/Article/ArticleID/41532/windowspaulthurrott_41532.html)
Title: Microsoft will cause programming havoc
Post by: WMD on 24 January 2004, 04:03
Why does MS get to control programming?  Aren't there still C and C++ stuff for Windows made by Borland, or other companies?

As for C# - utter crap.  (http://redface.gif)
Title: Microsoft will cause programming havoc
Post by: mobrien_12 on 24 January 2004, 05:51
LOL Refalm I love the new sig picture  (http://smile.gif)