That it costs anything is a common misconception:
The Microsoft C# compiler comes for free with Windows.
You can download the Visual Studio 2005 Express Editions for free for a year.
You can download other integrated development enviroments for free (such as SharpDevelop)
You canbuild C# in Mono
Yeah, Neil is 100% right.
FWIW, I'm using Scite as my editor, and lescript as my build tool.
Scite: http://www.scintilla.org/SciTE.html
lescript: http://manageddreams.com/utils/lescriptmar9.zip
Lescript lets you use C# as though it is a scripting language, ie you can do:
C:\ lescript
Hi Lalo,
Yes, you're right, for many applications weak typing is better, because it produces more compact, easier to read code.On 3/13/06, Lalo Martins
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:And so says Hugh Perkins on 12/03/06 14:27...
Just to throw some salt in the wounds of the Python discussions, I cant
Basic, javascript and a few others have weak typing.
Python, Lisp, Perl, Ruby, Smalltalk and a few others have dynamic
typing. Which is very different. (Although Perl's case is, like
everything else when Perl is in the sentence, arguable.)
I can't fathom a case of high-level code where strong
