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Message: [QUOTE="Justin Rogers, post: 1712184"] While Keith points out there are some things he would do differently, C# is in essence the attempt at an entirely new language, and yet they kept all of the older syntax. Anders was a Pascal guy, and yet he chose the constructs he did in his custom tailored language why? Well, because he thought they provided the most power for the language without denying users access to some commonly used programming tools. The first tool is debugging and error assessment. The strict language guidelines of C# make it very easy to discover the root of a lexical or parsing error. At the same time they make it easy to point out and find common programming mistakes. Verbosity or the lack thereof as a tool: Take language constructs like begin...end to designate blocks... They are verbose, why not just type { and }, after all this is much shorter. Why do I need to separate my code by all that whitespace: if something: foobar When I could easily write it on one line without all of that crappy whitespace if ( something ) { foobar; } What about intellisense and other features users have grown to love? Are they easier, faster, more efficient when written against a C type language? Does the explict bounding of statement/expression/block scopes help the underlying intellisense processor to more accurately understand what the user is doing? Does it remove levels of ambiguity that would otherwise exist? When does whitespace become important, when is it not, does tabs to spaces or spaces to tabs affect the compilation of your application? What happens to whitespace nested blocks when I use two spaces per indent, but convert to tabs that are 4 to 8 spaces per indent? Does my code resize properly or do all of my 2/4/6 spaces get turned into a single tab. Does a tab count as a single indention character or multiple? For instance, does a single space or a single tab have the same nesting depth? There are so many more aspects to programming today than loading up your favorite text editor and hacking away in the most efficient form that you can manage. Code generators, intellisense, auto-complete, are all tools taking up precious processor time trying to figure out what you want to do, and I think the trade-off between some extra semantics versus confusing the hell out of the computer that is making my life a bit easier, is something I'm quite happy with. [/QUOTE]

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