On Tue, 24 Aug 2010 20:14:54 +0100, Tom Anderson wrote:
On Mon, 23 Aug 2010, Eric Sosman wrote:
On 8/23/2010 2:18 PM, Simon Brooke wrote:
On Mon, 23 Aug 2010 09:49:27 -0400, Arne Vajh?j wrote: [...]
And Oracle does not have any obligation to anyone except their
stockholders.
This is true. Are you prepared to bet your career on a language owned
and controlled by a company which, as you say, does not have an
obligation to you?
That's why nobody uses C#.
Or COBOL. Or PL/SQL.
I agree about PL/SQL (SQL suffers badly from bastardisation by various
RDBMS vendors) but not COBOL. The COBOL language specification is now
controlled by the ANSI committee responsible for adopting changes to the
language standard rather than any company as the successor to the CODASYL
committee. Unfortunately it does have areas that are not totally
portable, e.g. the COMP-n field types, but last time I used it, it was
considerably more standardised than when I learnt it. However, that puts
it on the same footing as C and Fortran.
Sadly, the company-controlled languages include Java, Delphi and RPG as
well as C#.
implementations of it. What makes C# proprietary is the .NET framework, the
most interesting parts of which are not in the public domain.