Re: VB or C#
- From: "Cor Ligthert [MVP]" <notmyfirstname@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2006 06:22:22 +0200
Mike,
Do you mean that this sentence:
That means it has broader support, especially on non-Microsoft operating
systems. Something to consider.
Completely build on the Mono project and some personal opinions, because of
this sentence above I would have expected more.
You are right in that, that VB has a quicker evolution path than C# and
therefore probably Mono can not keep in line with that, but I think that
this tells more about what ECMA means as registration, like registration at
a non computer company has for ever meaned, it is no benefit. We have seen
that with more languages who don't exist anymore. Basic has a very long
lifeline you know (AFAIK after Cobol the longest) for a program language.
Before you misunderstood me, I find both VB.Net and C# very fine programming
languages.
Just my thought,
Cor
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Mike,
That means it has broader support, especially on non-Microsoft operating
systems. Something to consider.
Interesting can you explain this a little bit deeper, it is a interesting
subject I never have heard before about or stated with facts.
So maybe can you fullfil that gab?.
Fact is projects like Mono do not (yet) fully support the VB language, but
C# is fully supported. One proposed reason is that VB hasn't been
released as a standard. The open source community rarely supports
proprietary, non-standard solutions.
C# standard:
http://www.ecma-international.org/publications/standards/Ecma-334.htm
A related discussion about standardizing VB:
http://www.panopticoncentral.net/archive/2005/12/30/10911.aspx
Microsoft is about the only major software company that has continued to
support BASIC from past to present. BASIC also has the dogma of still
being a beginner's programming language with severe limitations and poor
performance. Although that was true 10+ years ago, I don't believe it to
be true today. But you only get one chance at a first impression.
Open source is entangled in .Net:
http://www.infoworld.com/article/06/09/11/37OPopenent_1.html?source=NLC-OPENT2006-09-12
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