It could be because I’m still suffering from upgrade fatigue due to a massive migration to .NET 3.5 that we recently completed at work. Then again, it might just be because C# 4.0 has received little fanfare compared to the LINQ and lambda magic unveiled in C# 3.0. Whatever the reason, I didn’t get around [...]
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I’ve been noticing my interest in non-Microsoft languages has been on the rise lately. I’ve been actively playing with Ruby and PHP and have been blog surfing for information on functional languages like Lisp and Erlang. I guess that’s why I suddenly became curious about the current popularity ratings of programming languages and started to [...]
I just read Don Box’s Languages and Beauty Contests post and was surprised to see him praising the aesthetic value of VB.NET. Am I mistaken or has the collective self-esteem of millions of VB.NET programmers just risen considerably? Perhaps the word ‘just’ is a bit of a stretch since the post was actually written several [...]
I just read the Silent Majority post by Paul Vick, which challenges conventional wisdom by offering some evidence that VB.NET is more popular than C#. The VB.NET vs C# flame war that ensued in the comment section led me to the following thoughts. 1. The difference between these languages truly is trivial. The recruiters I [...]
I’m a little bit tired today because I stayed up late the last couple of nights working my way through the Boo Primer on codehaus. I think I first heard about this relatively young (2003), open source .NET language through various posts by Ayende and Hanselman. I was intrigued by the some of the adjectives that I commonly heard in relation to this [...]
