dsimcha wrote:
== Quote from Christopher Wright (dhase...@gmail.com)'s article
Nick Sabalausky wrote:
"Andrei Alexandrescu" <seewebsiteforem...@erdani.org> wrote in message
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I've repeatedly failed to figure out the coolness of C#, and would
appreciate a few pointers. Or references. Or delegates :o).
Outside of this group, I think most of the people considering C# really cool
are people who are unaware of D and are coming to C# from Java. What's
"cool" about C# is that it's like a less-shitty version of Java (and *had*
good tools, although the newer versions of VS are almost as much of a
bloated unresponsive mess as Eclipse - Which come to think of it, makes me
wonder - If Java has gotten so fast as many people claim, why is Eclipse
still such a sluggish POS?).
Compare C# to D though and most of the coolness fades, even though there are
still a handful of things I think D could still learn from C# (but there's
probably more than a handful that C# could learn from D).
Generics and reflection. Generics just hide a lot of casts, usually, but
that's still quite useful. And autoboxing is convenient, though not
appropriate for D.
What the heck do you need generics for when you have real templates? To me,
generics seem like just a lame excuse for templates.
Put a template in an interface.
Use reflection to instantiate a template.
