Peter L. Peres wrote:

>>>>> Don't forget .NET's new one- C# , and of course Java. Some cynics might
>>>>> argue that C# is Microsoft Java.

>>> Is this the same C# that was compared with Perl, Sather, Python and a
>>> couple of others 

>> Probably not. I don't know that C# that you are talking about, but
>> Microsoft's C# is based on the .NET VM (something quite similar in
>> concept to the Java VM).

> Ok, now you got me started. I dug my copy of the magazine out, it was 
> Dr. Dobb's Journal, #206, October 1993, Which features the title page:
> 
> "Beyond C++,
> Considering the Alternatives
> * C+@
> * Sather
> * Parasol
> * Liana
> * Beta
> * Eiffel"

They didn't mention Python (but you did at first). I never had the pleasure
to do extensive programming in Python, but whenever I look at a C or C++ or
C# or Java or Pascal or Delphi program, I wonder why they don't use the
block building by indentation that Python uses. 

Everybody indents code according to the block structure, and the
differences people get in each others' hairs about are almost only about
where to place the braces (in C dialects :). No braces or other block
terminators needed in Python. Of course a few C constructs wouldn't be
possible with this, and maybe I should take C (as a high-level assembler)
out of this list, but for the other languages this would only feel so
natural. 


> SO my wetware time machine is not so bad, 

I bet not :)

> the context of the article seems to say C# may have been inspired by C+@
> among other things. 

Interesting language. There are so many out there that never make it into
the public light... I mean /large/ public.

Gerhard
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