Re: [chaos-devel] chaos.net 0.0.1 released

[Per L. <pe...@gm...>]

On 3/23/07, Anders =D6hrt <and...@gm...> wrote:

Hi Anders & welcome back! :)

> I'm impressed! I like the direction the project has takes, which feels
> like an exciting development. I've not looked closed into C#, since I
> now believe everyone should switch to Visual DataFlex (shameless
> promotion: http://www.visualdataflex.com/features.asp?pageid=3D679), but
> it's interesting non the less.

C# is really a great programming language to work with, methinks (and
I think Henrik Hallin agrees with me strongly). It has everything we
need and few negative aspects. One is possibly that you cannot specify
default parameters:

class Test
{
  public int Test123(int i =3D -1)
  {
  }
}

...that would be invalid C# code. But you can achieve the exact same
effect using method overloading (making one method with no parameters
in this case and let that method call the other) so it's not really a
problem... They probably removed it to make the code we write less
obscure. :-)

> One of the main issues I had with chaos last time was it took so long
> to set everything up so that once I could start development and
> booting, I'd already gotten tired of it. This should help with this
> issues very well.

It sure does. I mean, developing the system on Microsoft Windows
(rather than GNU/Linux) is a very good thing since it makes it much
easier for most people to try out the system and perhaps start hacking
around.

Please comment my other email about Chaos.Security if you like,
perhaps you have some valuable comments to add?
--=20
Best regards,
Per Lundberg