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C# Boasts (Score:1)

by gmillerd (8421)

How much of that is the interface vs the language? I think your giving C# too much credit in and of itself, though in the end the C# developer is more agile because of it your right. Its a loss to Perl that we don't have the interface to do such things (or perhaps other things more worthwhile and fundamental). Not something that a half-baked eclipse setup or emacs mode fixes obviously. The Visual Studio setup is quite powerful for that side of the fence, even if at times they are abstracting users from t
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  by Ovid (2709)
  
  I think a lot of it is in the language. Perl has grown up and unfortunately it's still in the clothes it wore as a teenager and they don't fit well. Many of the things the C# and Java communities can do work because the languages have a regular syntax and introspection.
  - Re:C# Boasts (Score:1)
    
    by Stevan (6065) <reversethis-{moc ... {elttil.navets}> on 2008.01.25 10:37 (#60526) Journal
    
    Many of the things the C# and Java communities can do work because the languages have a regular syntax and introspection
    
    Honestly, this is where TIMTOWTDI failed us, it is a double edged sword of flexibility and inconsistency.
    
    - Stevan
    
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