From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jan 13 21:32:21 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from hawk.prod.itd.earthlink.net (hawk.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.22]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D3E7037B400 for ; Sun, 13 Jan 2002 21:32:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from cpe-66-87-224-111.ut.sprintbbd.net ([66.87.224.111] helo=altavista.net) by hawk.prod.itd.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 16PzjB-0006PP-00 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Sun, 13 Jan 2002 21:32:13 -0800 Message-ID: <3C426D56.8020800@altavista.net> Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2002 22:32:06 -0700 From: Clinton User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:0.9.4) Gecko/20011019 Netscape6/6.2 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: CLR for FreeBSD 4.4-stable and a C# Compiler. References: <3C4316FC.30682.1521CD99@localhost> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG No offense intended, but there is already a programming language that was created from the ground up, is based on C and C++ and is almost identical in syntax and function to C#. It's Java. Admittedly, I have only looked at C# long enough to see that it was a hijacking of the Java syntax, sans the VM, (actually, I looked at C# a long time ago, now they have changed the syntax to be a little different, but originally, you could barely tell the two apart), but there is nothing that I have seen C# do that Java can't already do, and Java is available now. Also, there are some really great free tools available for Java such as Tomcat and JBoss. I know this isn't what you asked, but if results is what you're after, I believe Java will provide you with them. Clinton >I picked up a book on C# Programming. C# is a langauge derived from C and > C++, but it was created from the ground up. However, you don't need a C# > editor to write the programs in... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message