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Advantages Of .NET Over Java

Posted by timothy on from the easier-to-spell dept.

ansonyumo writes "ZDNet is carrying an article written by one John Carroll that outlines specific advantages of .NET over Java. It's written from the point of view of a Java advocate who has 'seen the light.' First of all, comparing .NET and Java isn't very fair; you have to compare .NET and J2EE. When you level the playing field, most of his arguments readily fall apart."

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  1. In Bizarro world.. by L.+VeGas · · Score: 2, Funny

    Not surprisingly, ZDJava has an article that praises Java over .NET

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  2. Syntactic sugar by Alomex · · Score: 4, Funny

    Not long after the Cobol disaster (too many syntactic niceties), the programming language community swung the other way and since the 1970s has opposed most niceties in a language as "syntactic sugar". Sure enough, the C code:

    x = y + z;
    is nothing but the syntactic sugared version of

    LDA Y
    ADD Z
    MV X
    SO?? Isn't the C version far superior nonetheless?

    1. Re:Syntactic sugar by pmz · · Score: 2, Funny


      Sheesh, lets at least use a "real" computer:

      save %sp, -0x70, %sp
      mov 0x1, %o1
      st %o1, [%fp - 0xc]
      mov 0x2, %o0
      st %o0, [%fp - 0x10]
      add %o1, %o0, %o0
      st %o0, [%fp - 0x8]
      st %o0, [%fp - 0x4]
      or %o0, %g0, %i0
      ret
      restore

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  3. Only do it once! again. by WasterDave · · Score: 3, Funny

    Fabulous.

    "In contrast, XML permeates every corner of .Net."

    Last year all configuration was being held in Active Directory. The year before that all configuration was being held in the registry (I can't remember the name of the IIS specific registry thing to rant about it). The year before that we were all supposed to be using .ini files and on each occasion the Microsoft developer wankfest assured us that "THIS IS IT!!!".

    What is wrong with the world? It's almost like there's a constant torrent of naive Microsoft fanboys dropping into the workforce under the impression they're software engineers.

    Dave

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    1. Re:Only do it once! again. by Tablizer · · Score: 3, Funny

      Last year all configuration was being held in Active Directory. The year before that all configuration was being held in the registry (I can't remember the name of the IIS specific registry thing to rant about it). The year before that we were all supposed to be using .ini files and on each occasion the Microsoft developer wankfest assured us that "THIS IS IT!!!".

      I bet the Next Great MS OS will use INI files again, but simply call it something completely different, like "angle-bracket-free XML" or something.

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