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

[Garry Hodgson]

"Thaddeus L. Olczyk" wrote:

> Java is not a variant of C++.

of course it is.  it's c++ with training wheels.

> Java is a very different variant of C .

for exceptionally large values of "very", perhaps.

> Otherwise it
> would not be so popular. After all, if it were a C++ variant why would
> people go to all the trouble to switch from C++.

well, many people are not switching, but learning java instead.
those who switch often do so because they like the simplifications
java offers vs. c++, or have been burned by its complexity, or they like
the standardised environment and toolset, or whatever.  perhaps they 
just got sucked in by the hype machine.  who knows.  but much of java's
initial popularity was because it was so similar to c++ that the
learning curve was relatively low.

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