On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 2:33 PM, Paul A Houle<p...@devonianfarm.com> wrote: > If I were a Windows shop, I'd go for ASP.NET. C# is a wonderful > language, a living language. Microsoft is continually improving it, while > it seems Java is stuck in reverse. Linq is just great, and the C# generics > system makes Java generics look like a joke. There's a lot of junk in > ASP.NET, but if you avoid the junk, it's a system that's better in J2EE in > all ways (Java Web Faces is as much of a stinker as ASP.NET Web Forms) The > big trouble is that people from straight-windows backgrounds can't tell > what's junk and what's not -- w/ a decade of PHP experience (and a healthy > phobia of accidentally being stateful) I've found it easy to find the good > stuff in ASP.NET; recent versions of IIS do a good job of surviving > exceptional events inside ASP.NET, better than most Tomcat installations > I've seen. > > Of course, ASP.NET means you're stuck with Windows... If you can't > accept that, you've got to use something else.
I agree with you about this. Microsoft has always had good language support. C# as a language is clearly superior to Java. However, Java still has a huge advantage in that it is platform independent. C# may be an ISO standard but that is meaningless if the class libraries are tied to the Windows platform. If a good platform independent implementation of C# with good platform independent libraries turned up, it could do very well. I also agree with you about all the "junk". C# and Java both suffer the "fluffy programming" problem. The number of classes and half-baked attempts at OO abstractions is unnecessarily complex and nonuniform. The number of C# assemblies is staggering. Why does logging in Java need 17 classes with all sorts of complex OO relations? That's just ridiculous. Mike -- Michael B Allen Java Active Directory Integration http://www.ioplex.com/ _______________________________________________ New York PHP User Group Community Talk Mailing List http://lists.nyphp.org/mailman/listinfo/talk http://www.nyphp.org/show_participation.php
