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Please check your facts before posting to avoid being a clueless moron: C# is not just a static language it supports dynamic typing, C# is not just an object-or

by CmonDev 13y ago

Please check your facts before posting to avoid being a clueless moron: C# is not just a static language it supports dynamic typing, C# is not just an object-oriented language it's a functional language as well. The post is downright offensive to C# developers. EDIT: ok, I figured it out - it's a troll post to stir the HN community a bit. Lot's of other good languages get undeserved bashing.

mikegioia 13y ago
For PHP he comes out of the gate saying "Don’t just assume PHP is horrible."! Apparently the ONLY redeeming quality of PHP is the vast number of developers who know PHP?
- timje1 13y ago
  [Not horrible] does not mean [has lots of redeeming qualities].
- camus2 13y ago
  Yes PHP is horrible,but it is usefull,otherwise nobody would use it.It has excellent libraries for "traditional" user facing websites. It's clearly not meant to do anything else.
UK-AL 13y ago
C# is better than your standard dynamic typing you see with ruby, and python. It has type inference(static, but you don't have to declare types), straight out of functional languages.
vinceguidry 13y ago
C# is most definitely not a functional language. It has a few functional constructs, and it's possible to (painfully) code in a superficially functional style, but a "functional language" it isn't.
codygman 13y ago
I disagree that just providing functional constructs makes a language a "functional language". How mutable state, purity, and recursion are handled have quite a bit of say in whether a language is functional.