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  • A Argonia

    At work i am working alone on the only remaining c++ project. But now new we started working on a new project in c#. So i am writing one of its projects (I pity my coworkers for working with me on the same project) and i was thinking "Oh i will make The class A private so it will be used only with the Class B and just use friend" but of course M$ had other ideas. Today was a good day i found another reason to dislike C Sharp. So i wonder what makes you people like or dislike C Sharp

    Microsoft ... the only place where VARIANT_TRUE != true

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    Don Kackman
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    It's been awhile since I've worked in C++ but as I skim stackoverflow and glance at the occasional specificaiton or example of C++11 I can't help but think to myself that it has become an amalgam of every computer language trend since C. How anybody figures out to write C++11 coherently, using the correct language features, at the correct time in the correct way is now beyond me. So I for one do not miss friend classes or private inheritance (or multiple inheriteance for that matter). I say Yay C# for its relative simplicity!

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    • A Argonia

      At work i am working alone on the only remaining c++ project. But now new we started working on a new project in c#. So i am writing one of its projects (I pity my coworkers for working with me on the same project) and i was thinking "Oh i will make The class A private so it will be used only with the Class B and just use friend" but of course M$ had other ideas. Today was a good day i found another reason to dislike C Sharp. So i wonder what makes you people like or dislike C Sharp

      Microsoft ... the only place where VARIANT_TRUE != true

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      PIEBALDconsult
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      I like C#. I don't like C++.

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      • A Argonia

        At work i am working alone on the only remaining c++ project. But now new we started working on a new project in c#. So i am writing one of its projects (I pity my coworkers for working with me on the same project) and i was thinking "Oh i will make The class A private so it will be used only with the Class B and just use friend" but of course M$ had other ideas. Today was a good day i found another reason to dislike C Sharp. So i wonder what makes you people like or dislike C Sharp

        Microsoft ... the only place where VARIANT_TRUE != true

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        Marc Clifton
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        Argonia wrote:

        Oh i will make The class A private so it will be used only with the Class B and just use friend

        Good grief. Even when I was coding C++ (which I did for years) I thought private classes and "friends" were a bad design. Yes, C++ templates are a lot more flexible than C# generics, yes, multiple inheritance does have its uses when used carefully and interfaces don't always cut it, but other than that, I quite enjoy the ease of C# development. And you can specify "friend" assemblies in C#, but again, I consider it a bad idea. Marc

        Day 1: Spider Database Navigator Unit Testing Succinctly

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        • C Chris Losinger

          OriginalGriff wrote:

          it is a lot harder to write impenetrable cr@p in C# than it is in C++.

          maybe, as long as you don't get near LINQ or anonymous functions.

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          It's a new syntax; but as long as you resist the urge to be stupid* with it linq one liners can be as easy to understand as the 3-6 line loops they replaced while taking less actual time to read because they're much shorter. * Or to click yes every time R#er says "I can Linqify that loop for you" because it can and does produce truly awful results in some cases. OTOH most of those WTFs can also be written as a much nicer Linq expression if you ask Google for advice.

          Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason? Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful? --Zachris Topelius Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies. -- Sarah Hoyt

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          • A Argonia

            At work i am working alone on the only remaining c++ project. But now new we started working on a new project in c#. So i am writing one of its projects (I pity my coworkers for working with me on the same project) and i was thinking "Oh i will make The class A private so it will be used only with the Class B and just use friend" but of course M$ had other ideas. Today was a good day i found another reason to dislike C Sharp. So i wonder what makes you people like or dislike C Sharp

            Microsoft ... the only place where VARIANT_TRUE != true

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            Deflinek
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            Argonia wrote:

            "Oh i will make The class A private so it will be used only with the Class B and just use friend"

            Ahhh the joys of C++, where friends can touch your private mem.... ;)

            -- "My software never has bugs. It just develops random features."

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            • G Gizz

              Seconded. Anyway, friend? really?

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              Albert Holguin
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              Nobody likes friends! ;P :laugh:

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              • L Lost User

                Most C++ programmers starting with C# like it. Maybe you don't like C++?

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                Albert Holguin
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                I don't think I'd agree with that statement...

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                • M Marc Clifton

                  Argonia wrote:

                  Oh i will make The class A private so it will be used only with the Class B and just use friend

                  Good grief. Even when I was coding C++ (which I did for years) I thought private classes and "friends" were a bad design. Yes, C++ templates are a lot more flexible than C# generics, yes, multiple inheritance does have its uses when used carefully and interfaces don't always cut it, but other than that, I quite enjoy the ease of C# development. And you can specify "friend" assemblies in C#, but again, I consider it a bad idea. Marc

                  Day 1: Spider Database Navigator Unit Testing Succinctly

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                  PIEBALDconsult
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                  Hear! Hear!

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                  • OriginalGriffO OriginalGriff

                    I like it. If you stop thinking "cut down C++" and consider it as a separate language in it's own right, it is very good - in some ways a lot better than C++ in that it is a lot harder to write impenetrable cr@p in C# than it is in C++. If you want a class that is only available to Class B, then declare it as private and part of the B Class:

                    public class B
                    {
                    private class A
                    {
                    ...
                    }
                    A a = new A();
                    }

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                    OriginalGriff wrote:

                    in that it is a lot harder to write impenetrable cr@p in C# than it is in C++.

                    Pretty sure it is ridiculously easy to write impenetrable code in any language.

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                    • M Marc Clifton

                      Argonia wrote:

                      Oh i will make The class A private so it will be used only with the Class B and just use friend

                      Good grief. Even when I was coding C++ (which I did for years) I thought private classes and "friends" were a bad design. Yes, C++ templates are a lot more flexible than C# generics, yes, multiple inheritance does have its uses when used carefully and interfaces don't always cut it, but other than that, I quite enjoy the ease of C# development. And you can specify "friend" assemblies in C#, but again, I consider it a bad idea. Marc

                      Day 1: Spider Database Navigator Unit Testing Succinctly

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                      pkfox
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                      +1 for not liking *friends* they go against the grain of *encapsulation* for one thing, and another thing *I don't like them* ;-) We can’t stop here, this is bat country - Hunter S Thompson RIP

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                      • P Pete OHanlon

                        Argonia wrote:

                        After few years/decades/centuries(lets hope) M$ will stop supporting .Net Platform and c# will die with it.

                        Why would C# die with it? It doesn't need to run on .NET - there is at least one alternative to the .NET framework, and C# is now producing code for iOS and Android as well.

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                        PIEBALDconsult
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                        Exactly; a language is just a language. In theory it can be implemented for any system.

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                        • C Chris Losinger

                          OriginalGriff wrote:

                          it is a lot harder to write impenetrable cr@p in C# than it is in C++.

                          maybe, as long as you don't get near LINQ or anonymous functions.

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                          Rob Philpott
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                          Yes, yes, yes. 100% yes.

                          Regards, Rob Philpott.

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