Is C# going to be around for a while?
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Hi, I just asked myself what might be the future of C#? Is the language going to be around for the next 5 years or maybe more? Hope someone has an answer
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Keep in mind that C# is promoted by Microsoft. Microsoft, whatever its critics may say, is a company with quite a high degree of perseverance, persistence, resilience. Microsoft will make sure that C# continuously grows and meets the ever-increasing demands of the developer community.
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In addition, through Mono, C#/.Net has the power to stick around even without Microsoft. The language is also full of nice features and in 4.0 (with all the parallel stuff) the framework is set up well for the multi-core world (the next 10 years?).
I wouldn't bank on Mono. There's some doubt over the future of it - pretty much the entire Mono team was sacked by their new owners.
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So you're the one MUMPS-11 user remaining? :)
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No, never learned that -- but I hear it lives on in Caché. X| Also, I've forgotten all the Pascal, Lisp, COBOL, and Fortran I learned in college.
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No, never learned that -- but I hear it lives on in Caché. X| Also, I've forgotten all the Pascal, Lisp, COBOL, and Fortran I learned in college.
You actually learned Fortran I? (I'd guess it was simply called Fortran at the time). I started out with Fortran II, immediately moved on to Fortran IV and Watfor, soon to be followed by Watfiv. :)
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You actually learned Fortran I? (I'd guess it was simply called Fortran at the time). I started out with Fortran II, immediately moved on to Fortran IV and Watfor, soon to be followed by Watfiv. :)
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Fortran 78? In 1986 on a VAX 11-780. Good times. :cool:
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I suppose VB (DIE! DIE! DIE!) can trace its roots back to 1964.
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Fortran 78? In 1986 on a VAX 11-780. Good times. :cool:
I was punching cards and feeding them to IBM machinery in the early seventies... :)
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Hi, I just asked myself what might be the future of C#? Is the language going to be around for the next 5 years or maybe more? Hope someone has an answer
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I was punching cards and feeding them to IBM machinery in the early seventies... :)
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But were they good times?
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But were they good times?
Most times have been good, however the best is the present, by its very nature. :)
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So you're the one MUMPS-11 user remaining? :)
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Keep in mind that C# is promoted by Microsoft. Microsoft, whatever its critics may say, is a company with quite a high degree of perseverance, persistence, resilience. Microsoft will make sure that C# continuously grows and meets the ever-increasing demands of the developer community.
I heard a rumor, though, that the main architect of C# is moving to a smaller company to develop a Pascal-based programming environment.
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I heard a rumor, though, that the main architect of C# is moving to a smaller company to develop a Pascal-based programming environment.
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Yea me too but he said he isn't leaving, he will work on both.
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Yea me too but he said he isn't leaving, he will work on both.
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Look at what is out there now: C (initially developed in 1969) is still in use, C++ (initially developed in the early '80s, named in 1983) is still in use. C# as a logical offspring of these is likely to be around a while longer yet! Even COBOL is still in use by some poor sods, and that was designed in 1959!
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OriginalGriff wrote:
Look at what is out there now: C (initially developed in 1969) is still in use, C++ (initially developed in the early '80s, named in 1983) is still in use. C# as a logical offspring of these is likely to be around a while longer yet!
I doubt the first two are comparable to the second. The first two, and especially C++, was pushed into a public specification with a large (disparate) base interested in the language, specification and success. Both were also the primary language used to support many OSes themselves. Unless all of the OSes that rely on it go away it makes it virtually impossible for the languages to disappear. As counter example Pascal at one time had broad support but was primarily pushed by several commercial interests. It still exists but is significantly less prominent. (There was even at least one OS based on it.)
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Hi, I just asked myself what might be the future of C#? Is the language going to be around for the next 5 years or maybe more? Hope someone has an answer
supernaturaluser wrote:
Is the language going to be around for the next 5 years or maybe more?
Should be around long enough to specialize in it. However even if popular in 5 years if that is the only language you are familiar with (in 5 years) then you should probably look to learning at least one other.
supernaturaluser wrote:
Hope someone has an answer
Anyone that can predict the future should find some other way to use that ability besides programming.
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Hi, I just asked myself what might be the future of C#? Is the language going to be around for the next 5 years or maybe more? Hope someone has an answer
Exactly like .Net C# will be there for next 5 to 10 years at-least. Many feel shaken on their job status by this question. Sorry for those down-votes from others :rose:
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If so, please send your resume here to the VA. We always need more MUMPS programmers. :laugh:
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It's the VA from whom I heard about the MUMPS/Cache connection.
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Most times have been good, however the best is the present, by its very nature. :)
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I'd agree, but I've been doing VB.net for the last nine months. X|
