[Gllug] OT(ish): Advice

[Simon Stewart]

On Thursday, Dec 12, 2002, at 22:49 Europe/London, Chris Ball wrote:
> 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.

MS have had a long time to learn from Java's weaknesses. One would hope  
that C# will encourage Sun to fix some of the issues that the language  
currently has. Tiger should be interesting, and once attribute oriented  
programming becomes possible in Java (forget the JSR number. Something  
like 175) then life will be a lot more pleasant.

> 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?

It's called either Rotor or SSCLI.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/downloads/default.asp?url=/downloads/ 
sample.asp?url=/MSDN-FILES/027/002/097/msdncompositedoc.xml

Sorry if that URL gets broken, but it should take you to the download  
page.

Cheers,

Simon


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