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Don Box responds to James Gosling .NET Bashing

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If you're just catching up, ZDNet Australia published this article quoting James Gosling the creator of the Java language where he says Microsoft's decision to support C and C++ in the common language runtime in .NET is one of the "biggest and most offensive mistakes that they could have made".

Luckily, we have Don Box to post a quick and eloquent reply with the truth.

PS: Did you also notice that Don calls out how Indigo is fully written in C#/.NET (1100+ files of pure managed bliss).

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  • Anonymous
    February 08, 2005
    Actually he mentions that all but 19 files don't use the "unsafe" keyword.
  • Anonymous
    February 08, 2005
    Senkwe,

    Don specifically says that only 19 of them use the unsafe keyword. The rest of them do not use the unsafe keyword.

    Quote: "In looking at the Indigo code base (which was 1123 C# files as of early last week), only 19 of them use the unsafe keyword. Every single use was to do buffer manipulation, either for low-level XML cracking, SSPI munging, or async I/O buffer management."

    Again, the 19 files that do use unsafe are for low-level buffer manipulation.

    Thanks,
    -Dan
  • Anonymous
    February 08, 2005
    I would have been shocked if Indigo wasn't written largely in C#
  • Anonymous
    February 08, 2005
    unsafe keyword in 19-files only ?<br><br>Is it possible to allow &quot;unsafe&quot; by default for entire 1100+ files project ?<br><br>;-)
  • Anonymous
    February 08, 2005
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  • Anonymous
    February 08, 2005
    Err, thats what I sad Dan :-) I think.