For me it's all about the framework. It's a pretty awesome API to be working with. I also like that fact that Microsoft bet the farm on .NET and that they are eating their own dogfood in a pretty big way, which gives me a lot of confidence when choosing a platform.
In terms of language, I like C#'s brevity and lack of "noise". Some languages are very wordy, or very cryptic, c# is neither. At the end of the day, with the .net family, the language you use is more of a personal choice (or a directive handed down by your boss). C# has become the de-facto standard from what I can see. If I were starting out I wouldn't consider any other of the .net languages as a first choice. HTH Grant On 29 April 2010 12:22, Michael Minutillo <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi all, > > I have a friend who is learning C# (and the .NET framework) for the first > time. He is specifically learning so he can write in XNA. He's an > accomplished programmer (typically writing code in Pascal/Delphi and C/C++) > so I've been trying to give him some direction on what some of the most > important differences are. So far I've tried to explain the value/reference > type distinction and when and how the garbage collector works. Other than > that I've given him a list of things to investigate: Properties, Attributes, > System.Nullable, Generics, etc. > > What would you say the most important aspects of the language are? What > makes C# a unique and useful language? What makes .NET a useful platform? > > -- > Michael M. Minutillo > Indiscriminate Information Sponge > Blog: http://wolfbyte-net.blogspot.com >
