   [.net] why would i program in J# if i have C#
  i am looking at the VS EE site and i'm looking at J#. it seems to do the exact same thing as C#. the site really doesn't mention Java compatibility. so why would one use it?   
Quote:Original post by Alpha_ProgDesi am looking at the VS EE site and i'm looking at J#. it seems to do the exact same thing as C#. the site really doesn't mention Java compatibility. so why would one use it?J# is a bastardization of Java.  I don't think anybody uses it. The Google results seem like accurate weights of language importance:Results 1 - 10 of about 2,840,000 for J#Results 1 - 10 of about 28,400,000 for C#Results 1 - 10 of about 74,700,000 for Java ProgrammingResults 1 - 10 of about 80,100,000 for C++Results 1 - 10 of about 117,000,000 for C ProgrammingC is probably a little high because of it's age, so feed about half of it in to C++ for game related development. ;)frob.   ;  Results 1 - 10 of about 269,000 for C++ programming sucks. (0.22 seconds) Google is easily the best metric for anything's popularity.   ;  You would program in J# if you had a large codebase in Visual J++ 6.0 you wanted to move over to .NET with a minimum of hassle.   ;  If you've written some components in java before,you can easly use that code for your .net projectsby copy/paste the code into j#.;Quote:Original post by Arild FinesYou would program in J# if you had a large codebase in Visual J++ 6.0 you wanted to move over to .NET with a minimum of hassle.While I agree, I think anyone with a large codebase of J++ code has bigger issues on their hands.   ;  Why bother with C# or J# when you can write in COBOL for .NET?   ;  COBOL? Why use COBOL when you can use FORTRAN?(by the way, there is a list of all the languages supporting .net here.)   ;  FORTRAN? Why use FORTRAN when you can use punch cards?   ;  I don't have much to contribute to this... so...I code in binary.net.   