Microsoft Puts C# and the CLI Under "Community Promise"

FishWithAHammer writes "Peter Galli of Microsoft posted a blog entry on Port25 today, regarding the explicit placement of C# and the Common Language Infrastructure (the ECMA standard that underpins .NET) under their Community Promise: 'It is important to note that, under the Community Promise, anyone can freely implement these specifications with their technology, code, and solutions. You do not need to sign a license agreement, or otherwise communicate to Microsoft how you will implement the specifications. ... Under the Community Promise, Microsoft provides assurance that it will not assert its Necessary Claims against anyone who makes, uses, sells, offers for sale, imports, or distributes any Covered Implementation under any type of development or distribution model, including open-source licensing models such as the LGPL or GPL.'" Adds reader anshulajain: "Understandably, Miguel De Icaza is jumping with joy."

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Re:Seriously, who the fuck cares?

[xoluxo]

Those links compare C# 1.0 vs Java in 2000.

C# 1.0 had a few goodies over Java: events, properties, delegates, p/invoke.

C# 2.0 introduced generics, iterators and a handful of extra features and lambdas.

C# 3.0 introduced linq, expression trees.

C# 4.0 introduces dynamic types, optional and named parameters.

Java in the meantime introduced the worst possible kind of generics. That is what happens when you layoff the entire language design team and let the language bitrot for a decade.