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Subject: C# versus Ada (was: Structured exception information)
From: Georg Bauhaus <bauhaus@arcor.de>
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On Tue, 2007-01-16 at 18:36 +0000, Ray Blaak wrote:

> C# is now my new favourite language, and I find it is more or less as typesafe
> as it needs to be, with "good enough" features for programming in the large.

Are you using C#/.NET threads? What do you think about the "ease" of
having Windows threads communicate, and share data, compared to
Ada's tasks and protected objects?

> And it has garbage collection!

Garbage collection is a property of all language implementations
targeting .NET or the JVM, so it's rather a property of the
implementation not the language. You could use A#, too,
or AppletMagic, etc. :-)


 -- Georg