various programming-related ramblings...

[pero_zing]

As much as I know I'm supposed to hate Microsoft and all its crap, recently I've been learning a bit more about it. In particular, Visual Studio 2008 is now free for college students. My first impression is "holy fucking shit this is a powerful program". I can almost see why they charge so much for it normally. I'm sort of getting the hang of C#

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[jonaswills]

Visual Studio is the best software microsoft has written. Have you tried editing the code while debuging? Its pretty neat... you get the Pro version right?

I think your viewpoint is just the one to have... learn them all and try not to have a bias towards any of them, then you can use whatever language best suits the requirements of the problem and the client... usually it ends up being the client, but you get to make your own choices sometimes.

But no... the windows developers were *never* old school unix geeks... they are old school windows geeks(DOS)... the more I work with m$ apps the more I realize how annoying it can get to do certain things... like running a command line argument from inside a c# program... total pain in the ass!

Check out the threading tools in .NET, they are really really easy and pretty damn useful, especially with every computer nowadays having multiple cores.

[pero_zing]

I meant that the CS professors I've had are mostly old Unix people who just plain hate MS. I think that's the reason they never discuss any Windows programs in class.

I have the professional edition, but I haven't done much yet. I've mostly just screwed around with some basic C#. I'm debating whether to bother with J#. It doesn't appear to be very different from regular Java. Anyone have any experience with it?