New Version of C# or new Language?

[james]

Here is an interesting article from WinInfo that I thought folks here might
like to comment on.
james



Just What We Need--Another Programming Language
I hope you've have mastered C# because Microsoft is working to
replace it with yet another C-like programming language. Dubbed Xen
(previously X#), the new language melds C# with XML and Microsoft SQL
Server support. To be fair, if Microsoft develops the new language
correctly it will be a superset of C#, prompting me to wonder whether
the company should market Xen as a new C# version. Otherwise,
Microsoft risks alienating C# users as the company alienated Visual
Basic (VB) users when it moved from the simple VB 6.0 language to the
more complicated Visual Basic .NET.

 

[Nicholas Paldino [.NET/C# MVP]]

james,

Can you post a link to the article?

 

[UAError]

james,

Can you post a link to the article?

http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,3973,1441657,00.asp

http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~gmb/Papers/vanilla-xml2003.html

 

[james]

Looks like UAError found them. Makes for some interesting reading. Don't
you think?
james

 

[Eric Gunnerson [MS]]

Note that Xen is a project in MSR, and therefore it is - like most MSR
projects - of a speculative nature. A sort of "if we did this, what would it
look like?" exercise.

--
Eric Gunnerson

Visit the C# product team at http://www.csharp.net
Eric's blog is at http://weblogs.asp.net/ericgu/

This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.

 

[james]

Noted. But, just reading the specs would lead me to think that it is a
natural progression of C# to make it more compatable with WinFX in Longhorn.
Or at least, that is my take on all the different things I have read about
Longhorn's file system. I have read that WinFX should not be thought of
exactly as a file system. But a part of one. Anyway, I was just curious
how current C# programmers felt about( Xen or whatever it ends up being
called) it and if they (C# programmers) would react the same way VB6
programmers did about the changes to VB6 to VB.NET (which I like by the
way).
I like C# as it is right now. I just wonder how drastic the changes to get
to Longhorn and it's functionality will be with current code.
james

 

[Jon Skeet [C# MVP]]

Noted. But, just reading the specs would lead me to think that it is a
natural progression of C# to make it more compatable with WinFX in Longhorn.
Or at least, that is my take on all the different things I have read about
Longhorn's file system.

You need to be careful here - WinFS is the database/filesystem aspect
of Longhorn. WinFX (IIRC) is the set of .NET interfaces to Longhorn,
including Avalon etc.