RE: [Dev-C++] C#

[Ioannis V. <no...@ho...>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: dev...@li... 
> [mailto:dev...@li...] On Behalf 
> Of Ramana Kumar
> Sent: Monday, July 01, 2002 3:49 PM
> To: Teodorescu Cristian; C++
> Subject: RE: [Dev-C++] C#
> 
> 
> ok, cool, so C# is interpreted? (and always will be? - i 


It requires the CLR, as Java requires the JVM.



> guess it has to be)
> that is great news to me.
> from what i read tonight (on the internet at various places) 
> C# is designed
> primarily at enterprise level, to drastically increase 
> productivity and
> convenience at the cost of a loss in C++'s raw power.
> so, i guess C# is more a replacement of java than of c++?

It is Yet Another Proprietarry Language (Java is too although it will
probably annoy you :) ).


> cristian wrote that he is learning c# and that it can do all 
> that c++ does


It can't.



> and is as easy as vb (which are all correct for this purpose) 


It is simple if it is what you mean (i prefer the term simplistic).



> and it just so
> happens that i was in the middle of writing a long program 
> using win32api in
> c++ which i anticipate to finish in a year or two (one man 
> job!). 


C# uses the .NET API. You can use the .NET API in C++ too. It is the
same API for all languages (C#, C++, VB, ...). I have already bought a
book to learn .NET (Win32 will not be used anymore). So you can use the
same simple system-depedent API for all languages which is a good thing.




> my fear
> was that i should be looking at switching to c# in this early stage of
> development. it seems now, hopefully, that c++ is still the way to go?
> thanks cristian and others

C++'s way has nothing to do with C#s way. The same applies for VBs way
etc.


Ioannis

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