Wow, this is the worst article I've seen on hacker news front page in a very long time.
C# has a tremendous potential for functional programming. There's some features that make a pure functional style easier and prettier in haskell, but C# has plenty of potential.
The title is total link bait. I clicked because I know there are things to write about - like pervasive nulls and mutable-by-default variables to begin with. There really are things to complain about! But the actual contents of the article are infuriatingly obtuse.
The fact that 39 people found this interesting in 2012 just demonstrates how ineffective the entire hacker news concept really is.
I totally agree with you. Sometimes the anti-MS feeling here is absourd.
C# is an amazingly designed multiparadigm language with excellent tooling that works in plenty of OS and devices. If it will come by google the open source world will be wet already. Having an ideology is ok but shouldnt be confused with technical merits. Some examples:
IQueryabe<T> and expression tress let you write expressive queries that run on the database but have compile-type checking. Amazing for mantaining big datacentric apps.
Async/await let you write complex asynchronous code as if it where usual imperative one. With for, try catch, etc... The compiler changes it for you.
And all this on a real language that runs fast and you can use in your work to build phone apps, web apps, win apps and also, but not just, compilers and authomatic theorem proving applications.
C# has improved greatly since this article was written, but replace it with Java and this piece is still sadly relevant today. The point is not that C# is bad, it's that using outdated tools can make it impossible or impractical to apply the kind of knowledge that many programmers today consider nigh-essential.
C# has a tremendous potential for functional programming. There's some features that make a pure functional style easier and prettier in haskell, but C# has plenty of potential.
The title is total link bait. I clicked because I know there are things to write about - like pervasive nulls and mutable-by-default variables to begin with. There really are things to complain about! But the actual contents of the article are infuriatingly obtuse.
The fact that 39 people found this interesting in 2012 just demonstrates how ineffective the entire hacker news concept really is.