[Gllug] OT(ish): Advice

[Bernard Peek]

In message <86of7q4zux.fsf at void.printf.net>, Chris Ball 
<chris at void.printf.net> writes



>   > With my developer's hat on it's less obvious. My guess is that C#
>   > fits between VB and C++. Microsoft wants people to move to
>   > object-oriented languages and C# leads that way. I'd say that it's
>   > probably intended as a high-level scripting language similar to
>   > PERL and PHP.
>
>I don't agree with this at all.  C# seems to me like 'Java done
>properly', and certainly exhibits no traits of a scripting or high-level
>language.  It's a surprisingly nice, expressive language to code in.

I haven't used it in anger. It seems to be a good introduction to 
serious programming languages. A little too complicated for the casual 
user who just wants to write moderately complex macros for an office 
app.

>
>   > There's already an open-source C# compiler and for Windows
>   > developers there's a free closed-source compiler available from
>   > Microsoft.
>
>I didn't realise that there was a free C# compiler for Windows; the only
>one I was aware of was Visual C#, which comes with Visual Studio .NET
>and costs about a thousand pounds.  Do you have any more details?

The .NET SDK can be downloaded from Microsoft's site. It includes a 
command-line compiler for C# and VB.NET.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/downloads/default.asp?url=/downloads/sample.asp
?url=/msdn-files/027/000/976/msdncompositedoc.xml





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