c# lesson for c++ developers

[Matter Paneer]

I was sitting on my porch reading 'c# Class Design' from WROX press and i
thought this paragraph was interesting:

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Where reference types are concerned, C++ developers will need to get used to
not thinking in terms of pointers. Although this is more-or-less what
happens behind the scenes, the CRL moves objects around on the managed heap
and adjusts references on the fly while the application is running. SInce
we don't notice this at run time and it's no obvious from the source code,
it confuses matters if you mentally try to tranlate between c# and c++ as
you write.
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This to me shows what a radical break there is between c++ and c# and how
being a c++ *guru* can be a real detriment to learning c#.

 

[Steven H]

This to me shows what a radical break there is between c++ and c# and how
being a c++ *guru* can be a real detriment to learning c#.

but dosent that fact also relate to java (which predates .net by a few
years). doesnt being a c++ geek make adopting java so damn difficult.

why limit your blind tunnelvision to C# - because its a microsoft product
and you set followups to comp.os.linux.advocacy

but wouldnt that make your post nothing but flaimbait - no way!