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Code center => Darwinbots3 => Topic started by: Botsareus on July 23, 2008, 12:21:19 PM

Title: Quick Qustion
Post by: Botsareus on July 23, 2008, 12:21:19 PM

Numsjil, I was wondering are you using C#2005 or C#2008 (3.0) to make db3. I am also wondering why not use vb.net 2008 because as I have read the relationship between c# and vb.net is the same as say between vbscript and javascript...

Title: Quick Qustion
Post by: Numsgil on July 23, 2008, 02:08:53 PM

I'm using 2005 professional edition.  Moving to 2008 would either mean moving to the introductory version or shelling out the cash for the professional version.  I'll move if and only if there's some new feature that I really need that 2005 doesn't have.  That's what got me away from MSVC 6.

I like C# more than Visual Basic, so that's the only reason it's in C#.  The neat thing about .NET is that code I write is accessible to any .NET language, so if someone were to come along and want to write a module or something in VB, they could do it just as easily as if they wanted to use C#.

Title: Quick Qustion
Post by: Botsareus on July 23, 2008, 04:56:12 PM

Very Cool

Title: Quick Qustion
Post by: bacillus on September 03, 2008, 12:51:52 AM

I've been wrestling with C# for a while, but after a certain point it just got too stubborn and I gave up. Any other platforms worth mentioning?

Title: Quick Qustion
Post by: Numsgil on September 03, 2008, 03:41:44 AM

Ruby is a fun language to tinker with.  It has a certain elegance about it.

Title: Quick Qustion
Post by: bacillus on September 27, 2008, 07:21:47 PM

I worked with Ruby for a while; I heard it has many similarities to Small-Talk, which never really became mainstreamed, especially passing functions as variables. After a while, I moved on to JRuby, because it integrated so many of the utility classes I have previously made in Java, and still uses the Ruby syntax. Basically, you can scaffold the program with Java, then build it all together with JRuby, which really fascinated me.