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C# 2.0 Spec Released

Posted by michael on from the most-anticipated-new-language-of-the-week dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Microsoft released the design specifications document for C# 2.0 (codenamed 'Whidbey') to be released early next year. New features of the language include generics similar to those found in Eiffel and Ada, anonymous methods similar to lambda functions in Lisp, iterators, and partial types."

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  1. follow the link by buddydawgofdavis · · Score: 2, Funny

    Seems like a pretty limited spec.

    All it says is:
    Plugger: No approperiate application for type application/msword found!

    whatever...

  2. Sea Number/Sea Sharp by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    C sharp? Wouldn't this be the same thing as C with a plus? A C# is C + a semitone.

    Me: "Hi, I Program in Sea Sharp!"
    Pianist: "That piece was played in D sharp actually."

    Ok, since I know they wouldn't name a programming language after a music note... It must be C Number

    Doesn't C Number conflict? You're naming a specific letter but using the generic word Number. I mean, shouldn't it either be Letter Number, or C 8 or something? But C Number?

    Me: "I program in Sea Number"
    Someone: "... Sea Number what? 1? 2?"

    1. Re:Sea Number/Sea Sharp by saden1 · · Score: 2, Funny

      I like to think of it has C Pound.

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    2. Re:Sea Number/Sea Sharp by AJWM · · Score: 4, Funny

      It's really C-Hash.

      Or as Microsoft execs like to pronounce it amongst themselves, cash.

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    3. Re:Sea Number/Sea Sharp by AuMatar · · Score: 2, Funny

      Please. Its just C. The rest of the line is a comment.

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  3. Haha by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    All these fags whine because they can't open a .doc

  4. Re:gc#? by Miguel+de+Icaza · · Score: 3, Funny

    No doubt in doing so violating some Mr Softie software patent and thus receiving a cease and desist.

    actually i would doubt it

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  5. Oh how exciting! by rixstep · · Score: 1, Funny

    This is so exciting! Microsoft with their own language! I can hardly get the words out. Strains of Eiffel and Ada! Wow! How wonderful!

    Microsoft are continually at the pinnacle of innovation in our industry, as we all know. That they should donate yet another technological breakthrough is simply too amazing for words.

    Now anyone who believes a word of the above can get on a one-way Trailways to Redmond. In such case, they need you there.

  6. Re:the kitchen sink too? by addaon · · Score: 2, Funny

    Java supports chinese variable names. Don't ask me how I know this. Don't ask my coworkers, either.

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  7. Re:Who gives a shit about C# by User8201 · · Score: 3, Funny

    "C# is ECMA standardized"

    BWhahahaha, you fell for that, huh? Propaganda makes trolls all over the world.