Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: Back To CS Basics. Fuck AI Date: 16 Oct 2026 06:42:46 GMT Lines: 25 Message-ID: References: <18dee4b6cab427fa$865$2574533$802601b3@news.usenetexpress.com> <87ik32455m.fsf@solcaium.us> <11asel3$31l32$1@dont-email.me> <87a4oe40v3.fsf@solcaium.us> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net h0thmaL4ihAOC7HSHwtZbARcznYovYHfjf80jgDdqJhnJ5l97g Cancel-Lock: sha1:9hrV+vm8Y1JrzX4YLVi8tf2kUq4= sha256:6H5vitwjsvxkzWBG533oo2hX9NDC4CJ9p29lfpIA7AI= User-Agent: Pan/0.165 (Kostiantynivka) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:93807 On Thu, 15 Oct 2026 23:26:40 -0700, Peyton wrote: > Lawrence D’Oliveiro writes: > >> On Thu, 15 Oct 2026 21:53:57 -0700, Peyton wrote: >> >>> I one time worked with a colleague who did not understand why a C# >>> binary executable was running significantly faster than a Python >>> script. >> >> Tell me again, why does C♯ exist? Beyond being some kind of corporate >> vanity project started by Bill Gates after Sun gave him a good hiding >> over his attempts to hijack Java? > > Something like that. Java got popular, and Microsoft didn't have control > over it. Microsoft feared that if Java got big enough they could bend > them over. So Microsoft created their own implementation of Java, Sun > sued so they created C#. Visual J++ was superior when it came to coding in the Microsoft ecosystem. As you say, Sun sued so the short lived J# was created, followed by C#. C# is an improvement on Java, which is slow and bloated. It's telling that back in the day IBM's skunkworks created the jikes Java compiler which was much faster than javac.