>>>We may be guilty of not willing to let go off a good hammer, even when everybody else is switching from nails to glue. Because it's still a good hammer. I'd actually rather like to have screws and a driver instead, glue doesn't hold that fast nor long.
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>>I have an impression, Dragan, that you are condemning things before you know/learn them.
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>>I'm not sure whether extrapolating memories of another day is always a good thing. The world has changed since GWBasic
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>Well in another message I said that I like to have strong typing when I need it, even if it's on by default - that's cool - it's just that I don't think it's the best and most important thing to have, and that I would absolutely hate it if I couldn't turn it off when I need to.
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>Other than that, I gladly went into roleplaying, just to present the view. My programming habits aren't that hardcore; I am actually a proud chameleon programmer, more or less fitting into any naming convention, environment and whatnot. But in a free discussion like this, I tend to express my preferences.
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>And C# is not a bad language, it's just a bit too much oriented towards the apps Microsoft wants to make, but it looks flexible enough to be able to do other things just as well. But I simply don't trust Microsoft. Once there's a C# by a different vendor, and that vendor doesn't have to play catch up with M$ every few months (i.e. the specs are public and the code developed for one compiler runs the same when compiled on another), then... I may change my mind.

I had the impression that
(1) you were just sitting on the fence (I'll see what etec/christof/craig do)
(2) you were bashing something you did not know about

Then, Mr chameleon, let me tell you that was also pi..ed off. Bought a lot of java books (language/assembler/....) and the one thing that turned me off what that in java you cannot pass parameters by reference