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posted by marcov, 13.04.2008, 23:18

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> > Up to C++, yes, though not automatically. C# doesn't belong in that
> > sequence IMHO. It is often put there for marketing, not technical
> reasons
>
> I like C# and think it is perfectly valid to put it into this line. JIT
> compiling is regarded as "progress" by the "majority", so why not?
Better or worse doesn't define a lineage. Crudely said: because somebody works in your old job, and wears a similar hat that you used to wear there, because he thinks he should, doesn't make him your child. Not even if the whole office screams so.

So in short, language wise there is simply no real family bond between C/C++ and C#, except for some minor syntax (like operator names, curly braces and form of _some_ declarations). However most of those actually work (are define) differently than C/C++ does. The resemblance (and the resulting advocacy) was the marketing reasons I refered to. It was worthwhile for Java and C# to paint an upgrade path with these similarities, but that doesn't mean the languages are similar. Oh, JITting and C# are not 100% correlated. See e.g. NGEN.

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Anyway these threads have gotten out of hand since apparantly people here (including you) don't want to discuss with an open mind, but cling to any hair to defend their predefined position.

That's not productive, so this will be my last post not directly relating to the compilers that I know _something about_ (VP/FPC), or technical dos details. I like a bit of discussing, but these long posts cost a lot of work, and I don't have the feeling anybody is really reading them.

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