Posted by Damien on 11/02/06 09:11

--CELKO-- wrote:
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>
> The DBA group really cannot learn those languages and stay current in
> them. We now need two application programmers per language (always
> hire in pairs for the same reasons you make back ups). So we pick a
> limited set of CLR languages for the DB shop. Sure hope that the
> application users agree witht he choice. If they are on VB and we are
> on C#, that +1, -1 thing in Booleans could be a problem ..

Please Joe,

spend a little time learning about the *COMMON* language runtime, which
also involves the *COMMON* type system - on which both VB.Net and C#
are built. That's right - for as long as VB.Net and C# have existed,
they've had no discrepancies on booleans (or any other built in types),
because they're using exactly the same implementation.

You've had a number of years to learn this Joe, please try to take it
in.

By the time the code is added into the database, it doesn't matter
whether it was written in VB.Net or C# (or any other CLR language).
Provided each language is equally powerful, the same algorithm will
have been compiled to the same IL code. And if you're not comfortable
with the language in which a piece of code is written (though any
decent .Net programmer should, IMO, at least be able to read/maintain
in either VB.Net or C#), there are plenty of tools to convert from one
language to another.

Damien

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