C++/CLI as C# clone?!

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Don Kim - 06 Oct 2004 02:01 GMT

I recently listened to an episode of ".Net Rocks" and the guest was Richard
Hale Shaw. In the middle of the interview, when asked about C++ and its
role in .Net's managed environment, his first statement was that "C++ looked
remarkably like C#"!

Does anyone know what he meant by this? To me, what is remarkable is that
C++/CLI looks remarkably like C++, not C#. Maybe its just me, but I'd like
to know what others think.

Also, he kept calling it managed c++, because he forgot that it was called
c++/cli. :-~

-Don Kim

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Carl Daniel [VC++ MVP] - 06 Oct 2004 02:07 GMT

> I recently listened to an episode of ".Net Rocks" and the guest was
> Richard Hale Shaw. In the middle of the interview, when asked about
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> that C++/CLI looks remarkably like C++, not C#. Maybe its just me,
> but I'd like to know what others think.

I think it does look remarkably like C# - when you take C# code and
transliterate it into C++/CLI.

It also looks remarkably like C++, when you write new code using standard
C++ idioms and style.

> Also, he kept calling it managed c++, because he forgot that it was
> called c++/cli. :-~

That'll happen a lot for the next couple years, I imagine.

-cd

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Sean Cavanaugh - 06 Oct 2004 15:58 GMT

COM vs ActiveX anyone? heh

>>Also, he kept calling it managed c++, because he forgot that it was
>>called c++/cli. :-~
>
> That'll happen a lot for the next couple years, I imagine.
>
> -cd

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M.C - 07 Oct 2004 04:15 GMT

ActiveX is based on COM, no "vs" necessary here.

People like to make fun like this:

C++/CLI clone C# and C# clone Java.

Well...I believe native C/C++ still rock.

> COM vs ActiveX anyone? heh
>
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> >
> > -cd

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