Posted by Jerry Stuckle on 03/11/07 01:44

Tim Roberts wrote:
> Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> wrote:
>>>> php is superior for small web applications,
>>> ...in your opinion.
>> 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.
>

No, you didn't actually SAY it was your opinion - but your comment
intimated it.

> 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.
>>> ...in your opinion. I would disagree.
>> Sorry, I agree here, also.
>
> That's fine, you're welcome to do so. That still doesn't make it fact.
>

And neither does your blather.

>> 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 you should spend a little more time before you open your yap like
this.

>> 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#.
>

You were asking for it because you're either a microsoftie or someone
who like to foment arguments. Either way you're stoopid.

>> 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.
>

So you claim. Your comments don't reflect anywhere near 35 years of
experience.

>> 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.
>

I didn't say it doesn't exist. I said it isn't worth using. Not even
Microsoft uses it. What does that tell you?

> 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.

I don't know him, so I can't say.

And no, it's major shortcoming is not that it's from Microsoft. It's
the fact it's a proprietary language which has no real support on other
platforms. Yes, I know there are some open source projects out there
which are attempting to port it to other platforms. But as soon as one
of them gets successful enough to start costing Microsoft some money,
MS's lawyers will be all over every one of those programmers.

And BTW - yes, I've used it before. I find a lot of other languages
better. And I'm not going to start listing the number of things I find
wrong with it here. It's off-topic and I don't have three days to type
it all in.

I can think of any number of languages which are better.

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