Re: [computer-go] Visual Basic as a Computer Go Language

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>> ...I wrote in VB the visualization part. However after a
>> while the darn thing would stop working claiming I have no licence to
>> execute the code. Darn, I wrote it, how could I have no licence!

>This illustrates Microsoft view on programming pretty well, doesn't it?
>"Did you pay your programming tax this month yet?"

>It is worse with C# .net because it compiles to less efficient code (at
>the
>moment - Garbage collection and strings being particularly weak points
>especially for beginners) and you are dependent on MS runtimes. VB at
>least
>could be compiled and deployed as EXE + DLL's, same with Java, it seems
>that
>with .net MS has decided to enter the realm of "subscription to
>execution
>licence".

>C# is quite a bit easier to build large applications with, at least in
>theory, than C++ though. Almost as good as Delphi ;-)
>MS has headhunted Anders Hejlsberg, Delphi's "inventor", to create C#.

 

The question is if you can call C# a real programming language. Isn't it more or less a special invention of MS?

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