http://simonwillison.net/2012-01-03T10:40:00+00:00Simon Willison2012-01-03T10:40:00+00:002012-01-03T10:40:00+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2012/Jan/3/is-there-any-reason/#atom-tag

<p><em>My answer to <a href="https://www.quora.com/Is-there-any-reason-for-a-new-programmer-to-choose-C-over-VB-NET-or-vice-versa/answer/Simon-Willison">Is there any reason for a new programmer to choose C# over VB.NET (or vice versa)?</a> on Quora</em></p> <p>My understanding is that <span><a href="http://VB.NET">VB.NET</a></span> was mainly created to help make existing Visual Basic programmers more comfortable with the transition to .NET</p> <p>So if you aren't already a VB programmer, you would be much better off learning C# from the start.<br /></p> <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/csharp">csharp</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/programming">programming</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/visualbasic">visualbasic</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/quora">quora</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/computers">computers</a></p>

2009-07-07T11:15:18+00:002009-07-07T11:15:18+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2009/Jul/7/assurance/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="http://tirania.org/blog/archive/2009/Jul-06.html">From Microsoft: C# and CLI under the Community Promise</a></strong></p> Microsoft’s assurance that it won’t “assert its Necessary Claims” against alternative (including open source) implementations of the ECMA C# and CLR specifications. The promise doesn’t cover implementations of .NET, WinForms etc- so the Mono team have announced they will be splitting their project in to two packages—a safe, ECMA based package and a package containing everything else. <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/aspdotnet">aspdotnet</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/cli">cli</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/csharp">csharp</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/ecma">ecma</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/microsoft">microsoft</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/miguel-de-icaza">miguel-de-icaza</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/mono">mono</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/open-source">open-source</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/patents">patents</a></p>

2008-01-07T11:03:22+00:002008-01-07T11:03:22+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2008/Jan/7/brad/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="http://brad.livejournal.com/2354680.html">Naming twins in Python and Perl</a></strong></p> Simple anagram problem solved in Perl and Python, with a bunch more solutions in the comments. The C# solution provides an interesting example of LINQ in action. <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/anagrams">anagrams</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/brad-fitzpatrick">brad-fitzpatrick</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/csharp">csharp</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/linq">linq</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/perl">perl</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/programming">programming</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/python">python</a></p>

2007-09-12T23:59:48+00:002007-09-12T23:59:48+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2007/Sep/12/ciaranus/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="http://blog.ciarang.com/index.php/archives/109">A CouchDB GUI front end</a></strong></p> Written in C# and .NET. It looks like writing frontends for CouchDB could make an excellent project for learning a new GUI environment. <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/ciarangultnieks">ciarangultnieks</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/couchdb">couchdb</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/csharp">csharp</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/dotnet">dotnet</a></p>