>Let me know when you can pull off the magic of auto-installing and running your C# >application as remote slaves across a lot of different platforms. Sometime the language >does matter.
Religious wars don't interest me . . . if somebody will paid me big bucks to have fun all day programming . . . I'm happy to let them dictate the language. Having said that, I think the real draw to all the .NET languages has nothing to do with the languages themselves . . . it has to do with the IDE Visual Studio. I start typing and a list of the variables and methods "right there" that are available to me start appearing . . . I see the variable I want (an very long and expressive name since I know I'll never have to type the whole thing) and hit "dot" . . . immediately a list of methods and properties appears that narrows to exactly what I want as I continue to type . . . when I see what I want I just hit "return" and the 20 character method name is filled in (even though I only typed four or five characters of it) and the class docs for the method parameters start appearing in place as I type. I don't go read class documents, I just hit "dot" and look . . . not sure which one it is, if I hover over it the class docs for that Method appear. If there are several overloads, they can also be shown . . . or will automagically adjust as start I filling in parameters. It is very addictive . . . amazing how used to Intellisense you can get in such a short time . . . Like it or not . . . Microsoft has taking development to a whole now place . . . So far, the Java tools that I've seen aren't nearly as "helpful" . . . I you know of an Java/Groovy IDE that can do even half of what Visual Studios can . . . please let me know! Frank
