• What languages do you guy

    From Deavmi@DIGDIST/BATTLEST/FREEWAY to DevNet.General on Thu Mar 23 19:18:00 2017
    What languages do you guys know? I thought it would be an interesting discussion.
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  • From jagossel@DIGDIST/BATTLEST/FREEWAY to Deavmi on Thu Mar 23 13:39:00 2017
    Re: What languages do you guys know?
    By: Deavmi to DevNet.General on Thu Mar 23 2017 07:18 pm

    What languages do you guys know? I thought it would be an interesting discussion.

    I know C# a great deal, and JavaScript. I use Ruby on occasion when it comes to Vagrant and Chef. I know enough of SQL to get by. Knowledge for Visual Basic (or and BASIC dialect) has faded away a lot over the years (not using it in years). Learning PowerShell as I need it.

    I can read a lot of other programming languages, if I try hard enough; writingg it is another story.
    -jag
    Code it, script it, automate it!
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  • From Deavmi@DIGDIST/BATTLEST/FREEWAY to jagossel on Thu Mar 23 17:07:00 2017
    I feel that I am becoming more adept that I can grasp a language easily but that depends. D is easy because it is similiar to Java amd C++.

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  • From Deavmi@DIGDIST/BATTLEST/FREEWAY to jagossel on Thu Mar 23 17:47:00 2017
    How is C#? Do you like the language?

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  • From jagossel@DIGDIST/BATTLEST/FREEWAY to Deavmi on Fri Mar 24 07:09:00 2017
    Re: What languages do you guys know?
    By: Deavmi to jagossel on Thu Mar 23 2017 05:47 pm

    How is C#? Do you like the language?

    I love using C# and has been the go-to (no pun intended... or was it?)
    language for quick scripts in LINQPad. There has been improvements in the language over time. If you're interested and have some time, take a look at what was added to C# 5 through C# 7. They have been putting in new keywords and quirky syntax to help reduce the boiler plate coding. The .NET and Mono frameworks does help out even further.

    Take a look at an example of setting a default value between C# 5 and C# 6:

    // C# 5
    class GraphPoint {
    private int _x = 0;
    public int X {
    get { return _x; }
    set { _x = value; }
    }

    private int _y = 0;
    public int Y {
    get { return _y; }
    set { _y = value; }
    }
    }

    // C# 6
    class GraphPoint {
    public int X { get; set; } = 0;
    public int Y { get; set; } = 0;
    }

    There are many other syntax sugars in C# 7, but the defaulted auto properties from C# 6 was thhe most noted one for me.

    If you work with databases a great deal, or having to deal with collections, LINQ in C# is like SQL:

    var localCities =
    from city in cities
    where city.PostalCode = "29209"
    select city;

    Or use the LINQ extension method with the lambda expression:

    var localCities = cities.Where(c => c.PostalCode = "29209");

    Underneath the Where() extension method or the where clause in LINQ is a "yield return"; which is not executed right away until it is actually used in an actual loop without the "yield return".

    I appologize for a long post, but I get really passionate about this kind of thing. I've been at the same job for 8 years where they use C#, XML, XSLT, SQL, and DSL; therefore, I have a lot of experience with C# and .NET.

    -jag
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