I’ve been coding Java for a good seven years now, ever since I walked away frustrated from writing business applications in lower level COM+, ATL, and C++. Tonight I dug into a .NET training book for the first time, as I plan on getting certified mainly as a goal for learning. It’s really hard to look at C# as a Java programmer and not see the overwhelming similarities. System.Console.Writeln isn’t fooling anyone. That said, I’m already seeing some niceties. Tonight’s example:
bool? flag = null;
The ‘?’ allows you to indicate the variable is nullable. Java is going to make you think about ints and Integers, even in the Java 5+ world.
