RE: Re: VB vs C# is there a auto documenting feature in C#

Here is what should happen. And it could may well happen. 

The code should compile in IL and then "IL" should be kept in source safe. 
This source safe version should be fully optimized and carry an associated
metadata related file from the original source. 

Then the developer should be able to pull the IL code from the SourceSafe
and regenerate it into whichever language they want. And it should not just
generate the original but a computer assisted optimized re-written version,
with features such as remove unused/unreferenced variables, ect...

The meta data file associates all the original tags back into the generated
code. Then you can compile this optimized version back into IL and resave
the IL. The IL is mathematical and is a universal. You could ask for it in
Japanese, Hindi, Arabic, ect... by applying a language translator for the
metadata tags. 

As long as we have computers we could USE them to resolve these issues and
move the Microsoft compilers to the next level. The computers can do the
grunt work.  

We can act like idiots (the way managers do) or we can design a solution and
revise the tool. If the compilers can interpret our mistakes and offer us
the intellisense they way they already can, this next level is not far away.

.Net/Microsoft reached toward this goal with its overall design and has come
"very close". And while this next approach might not be cost effective, most
advancement in technology comes with a cost tied to it. 

The CLI is just the new assembler and can be redesigned to accommodate what
is needed.  It is just hard to listen to these conversations about C#/VB. 
And I have experienced fear and loathing by managers trying to staff their
projects over this issue. Microsoft could really sell this new development
architecture to Management around the world. It's a problem solver. 

Remember - if you can think it, you can make it.  


Richard F. Chauvet
-----Original Message-----
From: Stuart Celarier [mailto:stuart@xxxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Friday, January 21, 2005 8:53 AM
To: padnug@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [padnug] Re: VB vs C# is there a auto documenting feature in C#


>You can also look into C#->VB converters and build your inital code in
C# and then translate for the end project.

Sorry, but this is a false hope. All of the translators between C# and VB
are quite limited in functionality. Of the ones that I recently examined,
the best ones are very up front about stating their limitations. They're
interesting projects, but nothing you can use to translate real production
code.

Cheers,
Stuart

Stuart Celarier | Fern Creek | www.ferncrk.com





 
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