[weiling]

Continuing the discussion on C# on DZone Forums (moved from Refcardz Community Review Mailing List).

Please feel free to discuss your experience with C#.

On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 7:20 AM, J.T. Wenting wrote:
ah, so anyone who accepts something Microsoft creates and submits it for
standardisation has no credibility?
Interesting proposition.

That would also mean the W3C (among others) have no credibility...

C# is a standard with Microsoft its maintainer. Java is not a standard (as
it's not supervised by a standards committee) but a specification, with Sun
as its maintainer.
If hardly anyone chooses to implement C# compilers that's not because it's
not a standard they could implement if they chose to. I know of at least 2
C# implementations outside of Microsoft, Codegear/Embarcadero/Borland and
Mono. There may be others.

Personally I don't care either way as long as it does what I need it for.

If the book covers Visual C# specific topics that's only prudent
commercially as it's the most widespread implementation.

Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2009 11:13:22 +0100
To: refcardz-review@lists.dzone.com
Subject: Re: [refcardz-review] Reply please, win a free book

ECMA or ISO are not a measure of openness. They lost a lot of
credibility due to recent Microsoft push to standard.
SUN is committed to openness and has a proven track records of opening
things that once where closed. The JCP is no exception to that.
Besides, the book isn't about "pure standard C#": the examples are for
Visual Studio and Microsoft compiler peculiarities are mentioned in
all the chapters.
Bruno

On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 7:16 AM, J.T. Wenting
wrote:
C# isn't in fact a proprietary platform.
The language itself is more open than Java, being an ECMA standard
rather
than a proprietary one (even if the Java standard is maintained by the
JCP).

I must say I don't generally like the editorial style chosen by Manning,
but
that's not to say they're not good books.

Jeroen Wenting

Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2009 20:13:03 +0100
To: refcardz-review@lists.dzone.com
Subject: Re: [refcardz-review] Reply please, win a free book

Hi,

Great initiative, but it's a bit unfortunate that all 3 books cover
proprietary platforms... Maybe you could consider targeting open ones
as well, should you ever do something like this again. Just a thought
;-)

Regarding your question, I've only vaguely looked at like one or two
of them, so I'm afraid I can't be any help.

Best regards,

Ludo


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