Microsoft's leader of C# development, writer of the Turbo Pascal system, and lead architect on the Delphi language, Anders Hejlsberg, reveals all there is to know on the history, inspiration, uses and future direction of one of computer programming's most widely used languages - C#. Hejlsberg also offers some insight into the upcoming version of C# (C#4) and the new language F#, as well as what lies ahead in the world of functional programming.
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Member since:2006-01-01
Well, no. ASP.NET is pretty good - certainly no worse than JSP or PHP. The benefit of ASP.NET is that it allows real RAD design (Okay, I love absolute positioning, so sue me!) and the potential code reuse of a properly designed engine between a desktop and web app is extremely productive (okay, Java has this too, but hey!.)
ASP.NET has a bad rap, because those who are clueless think "ASP" is an element of the ASP.NET runtime. Well, no, it isn't at all like that. Comparing ASP to ASP.NET is like comparing a Instant coffee to premium ground.
Member since:2005-07-05
Exactly, and JSP and PHP are also awful. It is much easier to write code and maintain code when you structure it well and separate your business logic from your display.
While you can do this to some degree with ASP.NET, JSP, and PHP, they all encourage poor development practices by making it easier to program incorrectly.
Another thing that I think is stupid about ASP.NET is the lack of complete support for it found in VisualStudio. For example, ASP.NET supports multiple levels of template inheritance, but VisualStudio only supports one level of inheritance (this may be different now, but it was one of several limitation of the IDE in past versions).
Also, I don't confuse ASP.NET with ASP. Everyone knows ASP is absolutely worthless. ASP.NET has some value at least. However, if I personally were going to use one of these languages, I'd chose PHP over ASP.NET or JSP; but that's just me.
Edited 2008-10-02 18:31 UTC
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2005-07-05
Anyway, web applications may very well mean ASP.NET and C#.
I certainly hope not. In my opinion, using ASP.NET & C# for web sites is only slightly more elegant than creating web sites in FrontPage.