November 2002
Intermediate to advanced
560 pages
11h 16m
English
C# (pronounced “see sharp” or “sea sharp”) is a new language developed to run on the .NET Common Language Runtime (CLR).
All languages make a trade-off between simplicity and power. Of the Microsoft languages, Visual Basic has placed a higher priority on simplicity and productivity than on power. Visual C++, on the other hand, provides a tremendous amount of power, but it's also a more complex and less productive language.
The Visual C++ team has talked about a “simpler C++” for a number of years. Such a language would be like C++, but would be much simpler and more productive to use. We explored a few ideas of what “simpler and more productive” might mean, but it wasn't clear what the right ...
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