A language with 100 outdated features almost nobody uses anymore
because they are obscure or simply not really needed anymore due to
optimisations, is a bad language.

On Nov 12, 6:13 am, Casper Bang <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Exception C# (the language) will be stuck with it.
>
> How so? Why does the fact that you can choose stack allocation up-
> front today, prevent any future similar optimization of heap object
> graphs that you just described?
>
> C# tends to not dictate the world so much as Java. Want pass-by-
> reference? You can have it. Want pointers? No problem.
>
> Future optimizations are always nice, but not neccesarily at the
> expence of the past. Example, Java enums are superior to C# enums, yet
> you had to do roll your own pseudo-enums the first 10 years in Java.

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