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[Xlithan]

i know .NET languages arn't just for websites, but they suck for anything else.

[TheNobleOne]

NO they don't lol. You can write a FPS that runs 1% slower then C++. Currently almost all of the game companies are using C# to write the tools to make their games such as modelers and map builders etc.... Not only this but most of the companies out there have already switched to C# and VB.Net to write their applications and software. Oh and how about this for size. Microsofts new operating system Longhorn has many API and core system dll files that are all writen in C#. Don't say .Net languages suck for everything else. You never even used them or seen what they can do first hand. Go back to your vb6.

Edited by TheNobleOne, 07 April 2005 - 11:49 AM.

[Xlithan]

alas William, for i shall be moving to C# .NET sucks, i've spoken to many people who have used it.

[Pandilex]

alas William, for i shall be moving to C# .NET sucks, i've spoken to many people who have used it.

Haha.

C# is .NET you ninny!

.NET is the underlying framework, the set of libraries for stuff like drawing the forms and the graphics libraries, and C# is the programming language used to utilise them.

[Sean]

[Xlithan]

alas William, for i shall be moving to C#  .NET sucks, i've spoken to many people who have used it.

Haha.

C# is .NET you ninny!

.NET is the underlying framework, the set of libraries for stuff like drawing the forms and the graphics libraries, and C# is the programming language used to utilise them.

correct, most of the newly upgraded programming language have a .NET framework, but C# is pretty much the only language that will interest me.

In the words of a few people i've spoken to, Microsoft makes the decisions for you. If you want to use microsoft software, you're pretty much forced to use windows since the majority of their programs can't be made cross-platform. It's the same with programming languages. Alot of people arn't using VB anymore, because Microsoft are cancelling all support for it and what not, and it will eventually die off. So either way I will end up being forced to use a .NET language.

[Pandilex]

alas William, for i shall be moving to C#  .NET sucks, i've spoken to many people who have used it.

Haha.

C# is .NET you ninny!

.NET is the underlying framework, the set of libraries for stuff like drawing the forms and the graphics libraries, and C# is the programming language used to utilise them.

correct, most of the newly upgraded programming language have a .NET framework, but C# is pretty much the only language that will interest me.

In the words of a few people i've spoken to, Microsoft makes the decisions for you. If you want to use microsoft software, you're pretty much forced to use windows since the majority of their programs can't be made cross-platform. It's the same with programming languages. Alot of people arn't using VB anymore, because Microsoft are cancelling all support for it and what not, and it will eventually die off. So either way I will end up being forced to use a .NET language.

Wrong again dude.

.NET is cross platform. Your C# programs will run on windows, linux, and unix. Check out MONO.

Visual Basic is obselete, hence why they are getting people to migrate to a managed object-oriented language.

You could always write in C++, which is also supported by Visual Studio to write native cross platform applications without a framework.

[Xlithan]

ahh right. I always thought windows programs weren't cross-platform, unless you ran some kind of program on linux/mac to be able to do so.

[TheNobleOne]

just so everyone knows MONO is not a emulator MONO is the .Net Framework port to Linux, Unix etc.....