Peter Drayton

.NET Developer's Journal Editorial Advisory Board member Peter Drayton views C# as a meaningful evolution of the Java programming language, just as Java was a meaningful evolution of C++, and C++ was a meaningful evolution of C, and so on. Here he offers a few responses to the Ars Technica writeup called "What is .NET?" written by London, UK-based programming guru PeterB. I often tell my students that right now the best book for advanced C# programmers is actually Effective Java. So when a fellow blogger pointed me at the Ars Technica writeup entitled "What is .NET?" I took an immediate look. ArsTechnica runs interesting articles, and right away I liked the fact that this article separated out managed code from managed data (most people blur them). But there were some annoying errors/omissions in the article that I feel deserve commentary. 1. C++ does not lose multi... (more)