Microsoft's C# (Sharp) & .NET -- A Heads Up

[Grant Edwards]

In article <Gq365.6003$Sn2.40878 at news-server.bigpond.net.au>, Neil Hodgson wrote:

>> In case you haven't heard Microsoft is coming out with a massive new Web
>> stratagy that, in part, uses a new language called C# (That sharp, like in
>> music).  ...
>
>   I read the intro and skimmed the language reference today. It doesn't
>look like a bad language but it doesn't have anything that jumps out as a
>good reason for moving to it. I'd call it a safer superset of C++. 

A superset of a set that already has an order of magnitude more
members than it should.  There's progress...   ;)

Your car is too heavy, slow, and can't corner?  MS solution:
add more chrome, lights, and two more colors of paint!

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