That's kind of strange thing to highlight, CKoerner. It almost sounds like you're paranoid about C#.
You're quoting an excerpt from the hilarious "A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Programming Languages" by James Iry, full version available here: http://james-iry.blogspot.com/2009/05/brief-incomplete-and-mostly-wrong.html As even the most casual of glances at these 2 paragraphs shows, the joke here is that both Sun heralded Java as novel, and Microsoft did the same to C#. Both companies are being made fun of for *heralding the novelty of something that isn't new* - nobody said that a language sucks if it copies some ideas from older stuff. Where the heck did you get that impression from? Also, "A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Programming Languages" is a joke. Try not to take it too seriously. On Nov 3, 6:32 pm, CKoerner <[email protected]> wrote: > > 1996 - James Gosling invents Java. Java is a relatively verbose, garbage > > collected, class based, statically typed, single dispatch, object oriented > > language with single implementation inheritance and multiple interface > > inheritance. Sun loudly heralds Java's novelty. > > > 2001 - Anders Hejlsberg invents C#. C# is a relatively verbose, garbage > > collected, class based, statically typed, single dispatch, object oriented > > language with single implementation inheritance and multiple interface > > inheritance. Microsoft loudly heralds C#'s novelty. > > Hmm wonder how many of those were in C++ or SmallTalk. So once a > language invents something, like Garbage Collection, other languages > can't use it because newer languages never build off what was learned > in older languages? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
