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Holy crap, this thread took off!
I have nothing against MS. Like i said before, i don't like being held down by chains. If linux catches on (it has a long ways to go...), then the stuff that i know will be pretty worthless. I don't want the same thing to happen with C# as it did for me with qbasic (dos died...)
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Who cares which company made it? If you really hate Microsoft that much, you may as well just go out and use Linux. If you insist on using Windows, suck it up.
I have nothing against MS. Like i said before, i don't like being held down by chains. If linux catches on (it has a long ways to go...), then the stuff that i know will be pretty worthless. I don't want the same thing to happen with C# as it did for me with qbasic (dos died...)
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>I don't want the same thing to happen with C# as it did for me with qbasic (dos died...)
I don't see why QBasic dying would be so bad. BASIC is still alive, and QBasic dying doesn't mean you can't program with BASIC anymore. Likewise you can learn C#/.NET if you want, and if you do want to switch to Linux, you can simply switch to Mono.
I don't see why QBasic dying would be so bad. BASIC is still alive, and QBasic dying doesn't mean you can't program with BASIC anymore. Likewise you can learn C#/.NET if you want, and if you do want to switch to Linux, you can simply switch to Mono.
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Originally Posted by Marks256 
I don't want the same thing to happen with C# as it did for me with qbasic (dos died...)
It's hard to be humble when you're as gifted as I am at pretending to be an expert.
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yeah, its unlikely c++ wll be around for another 20 off years
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Originally Posted by jbennet
yeah, its unlikely c++ wll be around for another 20 off years
Really? Basic, Cobol, and ForTran are still around. And C++ is only 30-40 years younger. So don't bet on it...
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Fortran is showing its age. Today its only really used in mainframes
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Originally Posted by jbennet
yeah, its unlikely c++ wll be around for another 20 off years
More likely we'll just see the usage of the derivatives change, especially as more C libraries are ported to other languages such as C++, which then add to the power of the C subsets.
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Originally Posted by jbennet
Fortran is showing its age. Today its only really used in mainframes
Why do people that don't know what they are talking about insist on saying it anyway?
http://inventors.about.com/library/weekly/aa072198.htm
http://archive.adaic.com/docs/reports/lawlis/n.htm
http://www.thocp.net/software/languages/fortran.htm
Key phrase: "still widely used today." And if that's not enough, here's up-to-date info about a language that's "past it's prime"
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Well, since C# isn't that old, it should have some life to it, eh?
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if c# is so good then how come ti hasnt caught on eh?
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