C# 4.0

[expat]

Whenever anyone asks my thoughts on C++ I just answer that that Barney Sodastream guy is a Dane from Aarhus. It is enough of an answer I feel.

C is a programming language, one that "wears well" as K&R put it. C++ adds things that it is really the programmer's job to add. Object orientation and reusability are in the mind of the beholder.

Humbug!

[VectraMan]

If you want ASM, use ILASM and you can write code for the CLR. I've written a workflow to native compiler for .Net before believe it or not. Quite simple!

Always wondered if you could do that.

Pointers are NOT needed - the CLR dynamically assembles the intermediate language to x86 / x86-64 machine code in the most efficient way based on how it is used. Sometimes pointers make things slower (!).

Sounds like you have a little too much faith in the optimiser. A custom solution will always be better than a generic one if you're going for out an out performance.

I was looking into C++ .NET, and it seems they've now fudged the language to use ^ as a managed pointer type.

[threaded]

Object orientation and reusability are in the mind of the beholder.

That's what's so great about it: one can go on site and produce all sorts of evidence that the previous design was cack and has to be re-written to make it reusable...

[Churchill]

That's what's so great about it: one can go on site and produce all sorts of evidence that the previous design was cack and has to be re-written to make it reusable...

Threaded, you really are a cock.

[bogeyman]

Threaded, you really are a cock.

Suggest we have a separate forum dedicated to this topic.

[threaded]

Suggest we have a separate forum dedicated to this topic.

No need, me and AtW are quite happy to share this one thank you.

[expat]

That's what's so great about it: one can go on site and produce all sorts of evidence that the previous design was cack and has to be re-written to make it reusable...

That was what I loved when OO became "hot": do it our way and your code will be reusable. Step 1: throw away all your code.

[threaded]

That was what I loved when OO became "hot": do it our way and your code will be reusable. Step 1: throw away all your code.

Yeah, that attitude shows a true understanding of the power that lies within OO. I despair for the clients of the previous two posters.

[bogeyman]

I despair for the clients of the previous two posters.

Yes - me too. I despair all the way to the bank.

[DimPrawn]

Amazing I post a silly throw-away post about C# and it develops into an all out flame war.

Geeks are great aren't they? Call their mothers a whore and they don't bat an eyelid, but diss Java or C++, and feck, they are ready to punch your lights out.