Importance of C# (was Re: IronPython-0.6 is now available!)

[Christophe Cavalaria]

ziller wrote:

>> After reading a tutorial on c#, I see immediately that it has all the
>> features that I disliked in Java.
>> 
>> 1) Everything is derived from "Object"
> 
> Pure OO is supposed to be an advantage.  Otherwise casting hacks have
> to be used and understood.

With real generics you don't need casting hack.

>> 3) No multiple inheritance
> 
> This has been covered to death.  MI implementation is a nightmare.
> I'm sure some design pattern would map any 'needed' MI solution to an
> equivalent one using interfaces and SI.

We have MI in Python and it works somewhat. And I'm sure SI isn't needed
anyway. There must be some design patter mapping SI in assembler or even on
a turing machine.

>> I'm not sure about 2 others:
>> 
>> 4) No serious generic programming support
> 
> It'll be there for 2.0.  And the implementation is superb (much like
> Eiffel's generics)

They aren't out yet and people are already complaining that they are too
limited. So far, despite an horrible syntax and horrible error messages the
C++ templates are still much more powerful than C# generics. And the best
thing is that the constraint system you can find on boost.org for C++
templates is more powerful than the one you have in Eiffel either :D