C++/CLI as C# clone?!

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Don Kim

I recently listened to an episode of ".Net Rocks" and the guest was Richard
Hale Shaw. In the middle of the interview, when asked about C++ and its
role in .Net's managed environment, his first statement was that "C++ looked
remarkably like C#"!

Does anyone know what he meant by this? To me, what is remarkable is that
C++/CLI looks remarkably like C++, not C#. Maybe its just me, but I'd like
to know what others think.

Also, he kept calling it managed c++, because he forgot that it was called
c++/cli. :-~

-Don Kim
 
Don said:
I recently listened to an episode of ".Net Rocks" and the guest was
Richard Hale Shaw. In the middle of the interview, when asked about
C++ and its role in .Net's managed environment, his first statement
was that "C++ looked remarkably like C#"!

Does anyone know what he meant by this? To me, what is remarkable is
that C++/CLI looks remarkably like C++, not C#. Maybe its just me,
but I'd like to know what others think.
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I think it does look remarkably like C# - when you take C# code and
transliterate it into C++/CLI.

It also looks remarkably like C++, when you write new code using standard
C++ idioms and style.
Also, he kept calling it managed c++, because he forgot that it was
called c++/cli. :-~
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That'll happen a lot for the next couple years, I imagine.

-cd
 
ActiveX is based on COM, no "vs" necessary here.

People like to make fun like this:

C++/CLI clone C# and C# clone Java.

Well...I believe native C/C++ still rock.
 
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