Public Standards: C# 2, Java 0

TheAncientHacker writes "While Java coders wait for SUN to be willing to accept any public standards for the Java language and runtime, Microsoft's C# and its underlying CLI, already standardized by ECMA, are about to get a second certification. This time by by the granddaddy of certification groups, the ISO."

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[athakur999]

Sun hasn't submitted Java to any standards groups because they they've haven't finalized their handling of the new evil bit yet.

Oops, sorry, wrong day.

Ok

[EinarH]

Quickly now, someone please find an angle to this story that makes Microsoft evil!
After all, this is /.

hmmmm...

[st0rmcold]

Grab a cup of c#???

Not the same ring to it :)

Re:hmmmm...

[Lemmy Caution]

No, but you can have a concerto in C#, while a concerto in java would be gamelan.

Standards??

[stevenp]

The good thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from.

To be read: "I don't care if C# is standard if it is a crappy language"

Re:ISO standards - so what?

[s20451]

How many academic programs you wrote as an undergrad (or even a grad student) had to run for hours or even weeks and maybe with direct user interaction and not crash?

As a grad student, I would say, pretty much daily. Some of the numerical integrations or monte carlo simulations that I have written have run for a week or more.

Re:Nice to say patented standards

[Mendax Veritas]

you can get a pig and put lipstick, makeup, eyeshadow, and a thong on it and call it Britney Spears but its still a pig.

That, however, is a distinction without a difference.

Re:Nice to say patented standards

[Anonymous Coward]

Say...uhhhh...you don't happen to have a picture of this pig, do you?

100% Pure Java Supremacy: Join the Java Jidah!

[Anonymous Coward]

100% Pure Java is Racialy Supreme! Join the Java Jihad Today!

Sun has created the 100% Pure Java Race! Write once, run anywhere, because there's nowhere to hide!

All inferior languages must be wiped out, and history rewritten! Integration is capitulation! Segregate and exterminate the inferior languages!

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Re:Platforms C# works on

[Arthur Dent]

At my university:
Classes tought with C#: 0
Classes tought with Java: 6

Class taught in Spelling: Priceless.
For all else, there's m-w [m-w.com]

Re:Nice to say patented standards

[Anonymous Coward]

Yeah, but it could be a Brittany Speers with 14 breasts...

I pitty the record label picking up the tab on those implants.

Re:What's up Sun??!!

[LilGuy]

Code quality changes from planet to planet? It's a godsend that NASA ever anything past the moon!