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    Is C# the same like "Objective C"? That is the book I have.

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    Nope. Not even close, really, except insofar as each was in part inspired by C or a C-styled language. Trying to learn C# by reading a book about Objective C would be like trying to learn Norwegian by reading a book about German. There will be some similarities, but a whole lot of differences too.
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    Objective-C was built as a strict superset of C (every C program is also an Objective-C program), adding OO elements of Smalltalk (programming language) on top. C# is more like an improved Java. Java of course borrowed a lot from C and C++ syntax, but less so (at least syntactically) from Smalltalk.

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    The statement that C# is an "improved Java" is entirely subjective. Java is both simpler in concept and design that C# and have substantially different goals as a language -- unless that goal is "to take over the world", in which case, Java is most certainly winning.

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    Quote Originally Posted by MacNilly View Post
    The statement that C# is an "improved Java" is entirely subjective. Java is both simpler in concept and design that C# and have substantially different goals as a language -- unless that goal is "to take over the world", in which case, Java is most certainly winning.
    Winning? You mean "steadily declining over time". Sure, Java was hugely popular in the 90s, but it has been falling in popularity over the last 10 years. The idea that it's taking over anything is ridiculous.

    cite: Measuring programming language popularity - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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    Quote Originally Posted by itsme86 View Post
    Winning? You mean "steadily declining over time". Sure, Java was hugely popular in the 90s, but it has been falling in popularity over the last 10 years. The idea that it's taking over anything is ridiculous.

    cite: Measuring programming language popularity - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
    I agree. If, I had to bet whether Skynet would be written C# or Java ; I would bet on C# .

    * Skynet is the computer system that takes over the world in the Terminator movie series.

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    Quote Originally Posted by stahta01 View Post
    I agree. If, I had to bet whether Skynet would be written C# or Java ; I would bet on C# .

    * Skynet is the computer system that takes over the world in the Terminator movie series.

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    I guess the quantitative measurement I was thinking of was in terms of "number of lines of existing code written in Java vs. C#" and "number of CPU cycles spent running Java vs. C#". If I'm not mistaken, then according to that Wiki page Java is "winning" overall. I would think this is due mostly due to legacy systems, however. The choice of C# over Java for new development seems to be increasing and would seem to be overtaking Java at some point in the future, extrapolating from the graph.

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    Quote Originally Posted by MacNilly View Post
    number of CPU cycles spent running Java vs. C#
    Regardless of how unpopular Java becomes, it will still hold the top spot for number of CPU cycles spent running it. Java is slow. Painfully slow.
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    Good points - however lets not forget that one of the prime reasons of C# existing is because
    Microsoft saw how innovative Sun was with Java so they made a "Java Clone" language. Both are
    fully object-orientated and both handle memory automatically.

    In the sense of Java still being on top - well that is never going to change unless colleges
    stop using Java as a first language for teaching. Not that this is a bad thing, but because Java
    is seen as a mainstream language it's not going to change anytime soon.

    C# is Microsoft's lovechild - and unlike Java it continues to evolve and update. I can see the .NET
    ecosystem one day overtaking the JRE world due largely in part to Microsoft finally making .NET
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    Quote Originally Posted by whiteflags View Post
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    Quote Originally Posted by Elkvis View Post
    Regardless of how unpopular Java becomes, it will still hold the top spot for number of CPU cycles spent running it. Java is slow. Painfully slow.
    Oh snap!

    It's done by design -- to artificially inflate the statistics!
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    The book of Stephen Kochan, "Programming in Objective-C" is aimed for those persons who has none-to-little background in programming.

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