From: Alexandru Popescu Date: 2005-09-18T19:46:52+09:00 Subject: Re: you can't get in trouble with your boss for picking C# #: gabriele renzi changed the world a bit at a time by saying on 9/18/2005 12:36 PM :# > Florian Gro� ha scritto: >> ToRA wrote: >> >>> For example, in Java/C# etc. you have to declare the type of any and >>> every variable you create. >> >> >> This is changed in C# 3. You will be able to do var and AFAIK there is >> even experiments with automatically specifying generic collections to a >> specific type if you only ever put in objects of that type. > > in C# 2.0 there is type inference for delegates IIRC > >> I guess I'm increasingly more sounding like a C# fan boy, but I think it >> is going into an interesting direction... > > I somewhat agree, but I think the C# team made a great design error: > growing the language by stacking feature over feature over feature.. > > From their point of view this is not a problem. They have the monopol so nobody will be able to complain. On the other hand, on the Java world sometimes the things are moving way too slow, because there are many peons (for example generics where praised by users for couple of years). I don't have the power to comment which approach is better, but I am getting the feeling that it is always in the middle :-). ./alex -- .the_mindstorm.