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

[Tom]

This should not be ignored (as suggested above).

Python's ability to seamlessly use COM is valuable to many using Python on
Windows, and is a potential inducement to VB programmers to switch to
Python.

Now MS claims that the environment that C# targets will be language neutral.
If this is true, and if Python can be used to develop for this environment,
then this too will be valuable to a reasonable number of Python (or
potential Python) developers.

BTW, MS claims that they have already submitted C# to the European standards
body that Sun screwed over.  I assume that the catch is that they are not
submitting the associated run-time environment.  Does anybody know?

Tom.

"Don Tuttle" <tuttledon at hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:qJ165.8938$nZ5.153196 at typhoon.southeast.rr.com...
> Consider this a heads up NOT a promotion!!
>
> 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).  Here's a part of what they have to say:
>
> "Because of its elegant object-oriented design, C# is a great choice for
> architecting a wide range of components-from high-level business objects
to
> system-level applications. Using simple C# language constructs, these
> components can be converted into Web services, allowing them to be invoked
> across the Internet, from any language running on any operating system."
>
> "More than anything else, C# is designed to bring rapid development to the
> C++ programmer without sacrificing the power and control that have been a
> hallmark of C and C++. Because of this heritage, C# has a high degree of
> fidelity with C and C++. Developers familiar with these languages can
> quickly become productive in C#."
> .......
>
> "The modern design of C# eliminates the most common C++ programming
errors.
> For example:
>
> Garbage collection relieves the programmer of the burden of manual memory
> management.
> Variables in C# are automatically initialized by the environment.
> Variables are type-safe. "
>
> Hmmm, sound familar?
> Here's the link
> http://www.msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/nextgen/technology/csharpintro.asp
>
> I look forward to you comments.
>
> Don
>
>
> --
> Believe nothing no matter where you read it or who has said it, not even
if
> I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common
> sense.
> --Buddha
>
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