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Posted by Tim Roberts on 03/11/07 00:05
Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> wrote:
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>>> php is superior for small web applications,
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>> ...in your opinion.
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>And mine and a few hundred others here on this newsgroup. Versus one
>opinion to the contrary - yours.
I never said that my opinion was to the contrary. I was merely attempting
to point out that he was stating as fact something that was, instead,
merely opinion. There is no doubt in my mind that the folks who
participate in this newsgroup would share his opinion. That's fine. It's
still an opinion.
In fact, I tend to reach for Python for small web applications.
I also don't understand why you turned hostile.
>>> java is uperior for large web applications.
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>> ...in your opinion. I would disagree.
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>Sorry, I agree here, also.
That's fine, you're welcome to do so. That still doesn't make it fact.
>There are a lot more C, C++, Java and even PHP programmers in the world
>than there are C# programmers.
Maybe, although I admit I couldn't find any real numbers in a few minutes
of web searching. C# is certainly alive and well in the corporate Intranet
world.
>Maybe the "demand" you see is because no
>one programs in it - and only those with the same blind view as you ask
>for it. Those of us who have been programming for a long time in
>several languages know better.
"Blind view"? What are you talking about? Maybe I was asking for it by
presenting a defense of C# in a PHP newsgroup, but the fact is that the
successful programmer keeps a wide variety of tools in his toolbox. PHP
and Java belong in that toolbox, as does C#.
>And for the record - I've been programming for around 40 years now.
>I've written code in more languages than you would ever dream -
>including C# - and many you've never heard of.
I'm not sure why this exchange had to turn into a resume contest. I've
only been programming for 35 years, but I'll bet our lists of languages are
equally long.
>And yes, C# is a great language - for Microsoft bigots and idiots who
>don't know any better. Which are you?
Apparently, a bit more open-minded than you. I don't actually use C# (as a
driver writer, my world is mostly assembler, C, and C++), but one would
have to be an idiot to pretend that it does not exist.
Anders Hejlsberg is no idiot. Many of the design concepts in C# are quite
intelligent. Perhaps its major shortcoming is that it came from Microsoft,
because the shrill, religious, anti-Microsoft rhetoric that inevitably
accompanies anything that comes from Redmond drowns out whatever good there
might be.
--
Tim Roberts, timr@probo.com
Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.
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