S_A_P on Developing on WP7 vs Android vs iPhone

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I actually was just wishing c# had as terse of a null check syntax as ObjC. I love the fact that I can type

if(!object)

  [[Do something]about it]

if(object == null)

  DoSomething.Aboutit

I know its a small thing, but my typenames are usually lengthy so in practice C# statements can get character heavy.

nlogn 15y

This is actually really easy to do in c#:

  public static bool operator true(Class c)
  {
      return c != null;
  }

  public static bool operator false(Class c)
  {
      return c == null;
  }

To avoid redoing this for each class you can just derive from a base class that implements these.

S_A_P 15y

well I know that it is possible, I was thinking of trying to write a similar type function with an extension method, but I just like how its included out of the box in ObjC. Really I think for a general purpose language C# is more flexible and while leveraging .NET you have more tools available to develop rapidly.

Part of me feels that Im not "really programming" when I write managed code though. I like writing C and ObjC because I feel like Im actually flipping switches on the CPU. It is silly I know(and all in my head), but being lower level seems to excite me more.

In reality I think its all about the right tool for the job, and choice is good.

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