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> "Hejlsberg: First of all, C# is not a Java clone. ... we looked at lots of languages, we looked at Java" - https://web.archive.org/web/20100109195800/http://

> "Hejlsberg: First of all, C# is not a Java clone. ... we looked at lots of languages, we looked at Java" - https://web.archive.org/web/20100109195800/http://windowsdevcenter.com/pub/a/oreilly/windows/news/hejlsberg_0800.html https://web.archive.org/web/20100109195800/http://windowsdev... You can just state the author of the language is lying and you somehow know better. You don't even justify why "they don't want to acknoweldge it" - even with Hejlsberg there acknowledging taking ideas from Java - or explain why C# had those differences mentioned in the rest of that interview, or why Microsoft separately wrote their own Java implementation like Visual J++ if C# was just "their Java".

equasar 9mo ago
Completely agree, HN is mostly anti .NET/C#. It rarely gains attraction, and when it does, people bashes it with unfounded or very outdated info from another era.
jvfjllkttg 9mo ago
Wrong! J# was Microsoft’s Java.
- jodrellblank 9mo ago
  "Visual J++ is Microsoft's discontinued implementation of Java" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_J%2B%2B https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_J%2B%2B "J# does not compile Java-language source code to Java bytecode .. does not support Java applet development or the ability to host applets directly in a web browser" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_J_Sharp https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_J_Sharp
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