Before getting into the Java vs. Net battle lets start with some other options ;-)
If you like challenges then you must try the brainfuck language which was created by Urban Dominik Muller and noted for its extreme minimalism - 240 bytes compiler download here
e.g. you can easily print “Hello World!” and a newline to the screen with the line below:
++++++++++[>+++++++>++++++++++>+++>+<<<<-]>++.>+.+++++++..+++.>++.<<+++++++++++++++.>.+++.——.——–.>+.>.
If you favor comments then you might consider using CPL which was created out of a need for advance commenting features, not found in any other existing programming language (e.g. nested comments…) @ http://sourceforge.net/projects/c-p-l/So…
Without copy-pasting a word - I think the best references to the Java vs. Net debate are:
- http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/oreilly/java/news/farley_0800.html
- http://www.adtmag.com/print.aspx?id=10993
- & nothing like a good flammable Slashdot discussion to get under-the-hood of this debate…
…Personally, after many years of Java-Java; I really like .Net-ing for the past year… especially after watching Steve Balmer, “Developers dance” @ http://youtube.com/watch?v=NSIMeRtVebM
