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Balancing Readability and New Syntax Sugar in C# 3.0

I’ve been struggling with something the past several weeks since I’ve been heads down programming some new features at work.  It is the first time in awhile I’ve really had a chance to dig in and use the latest and greatest features in .Net 3.5 and C# 3.0 in a production environment.  Like most...

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Interesting .Net / Java questions answered by MSFT Architect

Posted by Keith Elder | Posted in .Net, Java / Javascript | Posted on 20-07-2006

Dave Schmidt was sent some pretty tough questions from a customer that were obviously slated toward using Java over .Net.  David responded to the questions and decided to post them to his blog since he spent so much time responding.  Although he is a Microsoft employee (take that with what you will) he does have some great points on some of the questions.  Others I think I could have answered better.  I almost missed the document he attached about .Net Momentum Evidence which was at the bottom of the post.  The most interesting section in this document to me was the “Customer Endorsement of .Net over Java-based Alternatives”.