Monday, July 18, 2005
Fox in C#?
Back in June, I commented on how VFP's datacentric design was being looked at by other Microsoft groups and would find it's way into .Net. Now, Mary Jo Foley of MicrosoftWatch puts the question directly to Anders Hejlsberg, the Father of C#.
So, what does this all mean? Was I wrong? Will .Net borrow from VFP or not? I think the answer is a definate "maybe". Many ideas and capabilities from VFP will be brought into .Net and others will not. Ken Levy has already commented that C# will take a different approach than VB and that VB will look closer to VFP's way of doing things than C# will.
Now today, you may be working with Fox and thinking about adding .Net. You're asking yourself if you should choose C# or VB. A recent survey be Microsoft shows that .Net usage by Fox developers is split almost 50/50 between VB and C#. The answer is to pick whichever language you feel more comfortable with.
So, what does this all mean? Was I wrong? Will .Net borrow from VFP or not? I think the answer is a definate "maybe". Many ideas and capabilities from VFP will be brought into .Net and others will not. Ken Levy has already commented that C# will take a different approach than VB and that VB will look closer to VFP's way of doing things than C# will.
Now today, you may be working with Fox and thinking about adding .Net. You're asking yourself if you should choose C# or VB. A recent survey be Microsoft shows that .Net usage by Fox developers is split almost 50/50 between VB and C#. The answer is to pick whichever language you feel more comfortable with.
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