* Posts by fishslice

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Ten years of .NET - Did Microsoft deliver?

fishslice

C# XAML

C# should get more praise I think as it's a fantastic language that continues to improve at a rate of knots. 3.0/3.5 and LINQ in particular are the first languages to have got me excited the way Smalltalk did 25 years ago. And because it's so expressive and has this increasingly declarative and functional style, it is arguably the best language for those onboard with the software craftmanship. Also because .NET is so productive, it has an excellent and natural fit with Agile/XP.

@Anonymous Coward I code in XAML pretty much every day and it's absolutely awesome. Our product is differentiated in part by a very advanced (for want of a better word) UI and the stuff we are able to do easily in XAML would take months in Unmanaged C++.