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Re: Android---Why Dalvik?

From Michael Wojcik <mwojcik@newsguy.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.java.programmer
Subject Re: Android---Why Dalvik?
Date 2011-06-11 13:43 -0400
Organization Micro Focus
Message-ID <it0b3l21q2f@news2.newsguy.com> (permalink)
References (14 earlier) <isaq5k51eti@news2.newsguy.com> <isatrr$ok9$1@dont-email.me> <isbte0$dm0$4@lust.ihug.co.nz> <isnvt0415kt@news2.newsguy.com> <VB-20110609053556@ram.dialup.fu-berlin.de>

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Stefan Ram wrote:
> Michael Wojcik <mwojcik@newsguy.com> writes:
>> VB.NET is in many ways closer to C# than it is to historical BASIC.
>> It's trivial to compile VB.NET into MSIL and then decompile it back
>> into C#, or vice versa (if you avoid newer C# features that aren't
>> supported in VB.NET yet).
> 
>   VB is not called »VB.NET« anymore.

It certainly is by many people, regardless of what Microsoft choose to
call it. And the term is useful to distinguish it from pre-.NET
versions of VB.

>   When one writes code in VB, then compiles it into IL, one
>   can't but avoid newer C# features that aren't supported in
>   VB yet!

Obviously my parenthetical applied to "vice versa", which would
involve writing code in C#, compiling it, and decompiling into VB.

As for Erik Meijer - well, he's welcome to his opinion about what
languages are "interesting".

-- 
Michael Wojcik
Micro Focus
Rhetoric & Writing, Michigan State University

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