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4 items tagged “csharp”

2012

Is there any reason for a new programmer to choose C# over VB.NET (or vice versa)?

My understanding is that VB.NET was mainly created to help make existing Visual Basic programmers more comfortable with the transition to .NET

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2009

From Microsoft: C# and CLI under the Community Promise. Microsoft’s assurance that it won’t “assert its Necessary Claims” against alternative (including open source) implementations of the ECMA C# and CLR specifications. The promise doesn’t cover implementations of .NET, WinForms etc- so the Mono team have announced they will be splitting their project in to two packages—a safe, ECMA based package and a package containing everything else.

# 7th July 2009, 11:15 am / microsoft, mono, ecma, open-source, migueldeicaza, patents, csharp, cli, aspdotnet

2008

Naming twins in Python and Perl. Simple anagram problem solved in Perl and Python, with a bunch more solutions in the comments. The C# solution provides an interesting example of LINQ in action.

# 7th January 2008, 11:03 am / linq, csharp, python, perl, brad-fitzpatrick, programming, anagrams

2007

A CouchDB GUI front end. Written in C# and .NET. It looks like writing frontends for CouchDB could make an excellent project for learning a new GUI environment.

# 12th September 2007, 11:59 pm / csharp, couchdb, ciarangultnieks, dotnet