D vs. C#

[Bill Baxter]

Dave wrote:
> Bill Baxter wrote:
>> Unknown W. Brackets wrote:
>>
>>> Also, I disagree with your comments on C#; I don't believe it was 
>>> designed as the way to access the framework.  In fact, I think .NET 
>>> smells much stronger of Visual Basic .NET than of C#.  But that's 
>>> really an opinion.
>>
>> And the smell of "NotJava .NET" is pretty strong too.
>>
>> --bb
> 
> Funny thing is, I think that most of the runtime and big chunks of the 
> .NET library can trace their roots back to MS Visual J++ <g>
> 
> Was .NET announced before or after Sun won the judgement? (I can't 
> remember). It may turn out that MS lost the battle but won the war on 
> that one, if losing Java was the impetus for .NET anyhow.

It was definitely round about the same time Sun was suing them over 
their non-standard extensions to Java.  I think folks at Microsoft liked 
Java the language, but if Sun wasn't going to let them add COM 
extensions and win32 APIs and such, then it was never going to be a 
viable replacement for VB.  So they did what they had to do in my view. 
  C# .NET seems to be a pretty sweet thing for anyone willing to swallow 
the Microsoft Kool-aid.

--bb