From: "Robert Comer" 

>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?

Sure it can, there's no restriction that a language has to compile down to
machine code, and in fact, it's not even all that desirable in this day and
age.  For instance the AS/400 doesn't have any way to compile programs down
to machine code, just to an intermediate layer just like .NET.  It's still
a working program even if it is intermediate code on top of a runtime
environment of some kind.

I wouldn't call C# an improved C btw, it's a different "idea"
that looks kind of like C.

- Bob Comer


"Gary Britt"  wrote in message
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>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 message
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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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