Talk:Comparison of C Sharp and Java: Difference between revisions

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Am I missing something? Maybe you are talking about the "best practice" of capitalizing method names. This is not a feature of C# any more than creating meaningful variable names, or using for loops instead of while loops, i.e. it's up to programmer preference.

"C# includes delegates, whereas Java does not. Some argue that delegates are extremely useful, but others point out that their inclusion complicates the method invocation model." This is what that line was refering to. I didn't understand it when I read it either, so I changed it. Hopefully, it is clearer now. [[User:Tbjablin|Tbjablin]] 05:02, 24 Apr 2005 (UTC)

--In that case, delegates don't ''complicate'' the model, they ''expand'' the model. One can completely ignore delegates and still be a quite succesful coder in C#. I think it gives a false impression that C# is more difficult to learn than Java. While it will certainly take you longer to learn ''completely'' (since there are more language-level features in C#), base functionality in both languages is a nearly identical task.

If anything, if we define a task T that is particularly suited to being implemented with a delegate pattern, then Java is technically more complicated. One would have to use a lot of interfaces, annonymous inner classes, and the Reflection API to achieve all the same things that delegates achieve very easily. I shudder to think of the ugly hack that would result from trying to reimplement delegate concatenation in Java.

This is the same arguement that C zealots make against C++, that C++'s inclusion of additional keywords made it a more complicated, and more difficult to learn. It's just not true, more language features make languages ''easier''. We invent new langauges to make our jobs as programmers easier, not to make them more difficult. Imagine if your speaking vocabulary were cut in half, would you be able to express yourself as easily?

Delegates are there if you know how to use them, and they sit out of the way if you don't. They're not there at all in Java, so even if you know how to use them, you're out of luck.

--capn_midnight