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Hi,
I just asked myself what might be the future of C#?
Is the language going to be around for the next 5 years or maybe more?
Hope someone has an answer
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Well, it's been around for the last 10 years, so yeah, I think it'll be around for lots longer.
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yes.
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Keep in mind that C# is promoted by Microsoft. Microsoft, whatever its critics may say, is a company with quite a high degree of perseverance, persistence, resilience. Microsoft will make sure that C# continuously grows and meets the ever-increasing demands of the developer community.
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In addition, through Mono, C#/.Net has the power to stick around even without Microsoft. The language is also full of nice features and in 4.0 (with all the parallel stuff) the framework is set up well for the multi-core world (the next 10 years?).
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I wouldn't bank on Mono. There's some doubt over the future of it - pretty much the entire Mono team was sacked by their new owners.
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I heard a rumor, though, that the main architect of C# is moving to a smaller company to develop a Pascal-based programming environment.
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Yea me too but he said he isn't leaving, he will work on both.
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Yeah, right. "No, really, Honey. We're just good friends." 
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Languages don't just die; you can use it as long as you like even if you're the only one.
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So you're the one MUMPS-11 user remaining?
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No, never learned that -- but I hear it lives on in Caché. 
Also, I've forgotten all the Pascal, Lisp, COBOL, and Fortran I learned in college.
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You actually learned Fortran I? (I'd guess it was simply called Fortran at the time). I started out with Fortran II, immediately moved on to Fortran IV and Watfor, soon to be followed by Watfiv.
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Fortran 78? In 1986 on a VAX 11-780. Good times. 
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I was punching cards and feeding them to IBM machinery in the early seventies...
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But were they good times?
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Most times have been good, however the best is the present, by its very nature.
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I'd agree, but I've been doing VB.net for the last nine months.
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VB.NET isn't that bad, make sure strict on applies to everything (I know you had it set up by default), then pretend it is C# and you'll be fine...
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Yeah, right... I ran up against the exclamation point (!) operator today -- I asked around and no one knew what it was so I had to look it up.
I'll stick with C#, thank you very much.
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A little cheat card can go a long way.
The nastiest difference I found between VB.NET and C# is documented here[^].
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Or how the behaviour of ToString for enums in VB doesn't match the documentation.
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If so, please send your resume here to the VA. We always need more MUMPS programmers. 
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It's the VA from whom I heard about the MUMPS/Cache connection.
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At least we are thinking about moving it off VMS and onto Windows and/or Linux.
We might even upgrade our VGA monitors.
Kidding. 
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