[GlenW]

I'm finding it very difficult to defend myself as I also program in ANSI C for real-time systems, in VXWorks on Unix. making robots work.

But here goes:

To produce good software, efficiently and quickly VS cannot be touched, .NET's managed code with it's superb garbage collection means you make something, use it then forget it. No memory leaks, well this is not true you get loads of memory leaks, but the GC sorts then out if it has too. Please don't say Java has all this, anyone who likes a language so analy retentive it enforces its string type as being a reference type instead using static constructors to enable it mimic a data type has real problems.

To produce real-time software, that is so good and efficient that you have to make it sleep for over 98% of the time, you use Unix and only Unix. I don't think there are many OO autopilots.

But don't expect me to ever agree with Taffy. :icon_wink: