From: "Gary Britt" 

I thought C# was some sort of improved C.  In other words I thought it was
a programming language, but can something be called a programming language
if it doesn't/can't be compiled into a working program?

Gary

"Antti Kurenniemi"  wrote in
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> "Geo"  wrote in message
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> >> It's not even easier to program for, at least not the way it's going
> >> right
> >> now: new releases that are not compatible, coming out way too often,
> >> which
> >> not only causes more work but also makes one wonder how well designed
the
> >> whole damn thing was to begin with. I used .NET for a while (I like C#
as
> > a
> >> language), but I'm now mostly back on Win32.
> >
> > the question I have to ask is do you think MS created .NET because
> > it was needed or because they needed to replace Sun's Java?
>
> I don't know. Maybe they needed something "new" to make a big hoopla
about.
> Probably Java had a lot to do with it, which would explain why MS created
a
> new "platform" that is almost as sucky as Java instead of
making just a
new
> language (C#). Now, a C# compiler that generates Win32 apps, that I would
> like a lot.
>
>
> Antti Kurenniemi
>
>

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