On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 06:38:54PM -0700, David Brown wrote: > On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 11:53:23AM -0700, Paul G. Allen wrote: > >>> Although in this case it's "create and extend" since they created the >>> standard in the first place. >> >> Um, no. C# is a modern version of J++, which was a M$ (read >> bastardized) version of Java. M$ was sued for Java license violations, >> and forced to remove J++ from their OS and stop selling it. Years >> later, it's re-released as C#. >> >> It's not new. They did not invent it. > > Depends on what you mean by "invent". The same argument could be made that > Sun didn't invent Java, since many of its concepts were borrowed from other > languages. > > C# is very definitely not a hacked up version of Java. It is definitely a > similar family language, though, and both of them bother me in the same > ways. > > I'm glad that Java has finally made people realize that memory management > is a good thing to have in a language. I can't say that I otherwise > particularly like either language. > > David >
Errr, actually C# was not even microsofts creation they "Bought" it. It was created by Anders Hejlsberg from Denmark. The story isn't clear on wikipedia and other sites, but the story remains that he was "Bought out" for his side development of this language as a few developers i've heard talk about this same subject multiple times.. > > -- > [email protected] > http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list -- Ryan Lewon /sbin.us -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
