Hi all,

Two questions:

1. I've seen various references to a language called C# recently. I assume this is some new derivative of C or C++. For what reason has it been introduced? Is it worth learning?

2. Is ANSI C (as opposed to C++) withering on the vine? I mean, will it still be around in 10 or 20 years time?

THanks.

[QUOTE=Completely Clueless;3645208]Hi all,
It started as Microsofts language to replace visual basic and it is a C based language with garbage collection, GUI build in and such other things. If you deem it worthy of learning then you would more than likely be using Mono which is the nix port of C#, as to if it is worth learning. It is more productive a language to use as opposed to C or C++ but you would have to evaluate its worth yourself. In some industries it is the main language for tools yet in many more it is not.

The C language is currently having a new standard drafted, even after it has been released it may take a few years to have the ANSI stamp (Do you know what ANSI is an acronym for?). In my opinion yes C will still be with us in that time frame.

I'd say C# is a language to compete with Java and yes, in many respects it's better.

The only things I've read about it compare C# with Java, also.

OK, thanks guys.

I'm just about to start revising my rusty old C and thought I'd better check first if times had moved on too much. I don't need OOP and yes I do know what ANSI stands for. I'm most comfortable with the old K&R standard. I can therefore happily ignore C#, C++ and Java

THanks again.

I ignore C#, C++, and Java daily. I'm sticking with C and assembly.

You're my kind of guy, Joe!

ANSI is American National Standards Institute.

And it will be your gravest mistake to stick to K&R style - better use C89 == ANSI C and C99.

I try to ignore forum comments daily.

Well, then the logical question is: "what do you catch ?".

Very good Sergei

No idea what the above means, but.....

I'll bet this - your sig - is written in Bash.

Perform web search on

OOP try catch

- a useful concept to know; implemented in a vast variety of languages - not necessarily using the 'try', 'catch' keywords. And not specifically OOP related.

I should've emphasized how much I ignore Java.
Also, I know that try and catch are used in C++, but I've never seen them used anywhere else, personally. I thought they might be unique to C++, at least the specific words.

I think it will as it's the most universal language (in my humble opinion). It's available for nearly every platform that you can think of, from microcontrollers like the Microchip PIC family with something like 1k code memory, 64 bytes data memory and a few bytes stack space to PCs to system with terabytes of memory.