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Original post by Josh Horton
Recently I happened to see something that may beat c++ - c#. It supposedly has the power of c++ but has the portability of Java. I''m wanting to see how it goes.

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care to tell us what that ''something'' is?

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shurcool
wwdev

c#

Pardon the pun but I just can''t "C" it lasting. The industry is moving toward virtual machines, java has the JVM, C++ now has the Microsoft CLR. Yes you can do certain low-level stuff with C++ but only because the OS lets you. Remember mode 13? Well that went out the window with windows 98/NT. Protected mode? you get the idea. In the future C may be used but you''ll see less and less access to low-level APIs so it makes no sense to argue "C will always be around since it provides this".
It will probably last another 10 years though, but everyone knows it''s impossible to tell what''s going to happen 2 years out.


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Microsoft itself says that C# was developed with platform-orthogonality in mind, rather than efficiency or speed. Just because it can do unsafe things doesn''t mean it can do them quickly.

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Don''t listen to me. I''ve had too much coffee.