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3 hours ago, Sven Groot wrote

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I partitioned my laptop SSD into two parts, because I like having my data on a separate partition from the OS. That way I can just reformat the OS partition if I want to reinstall or upgrade without worrying about my stuff. I don't do that on my desktop, because there the data is on a physically different disk from the OS.

I used to do that as well, but now with Dropbox and Sky Drive I feel it's less of a worry

Extension methods is one of my least favorite features in C#, they are a hack to inject functionality into something that doesn't have it. Mixins can be a better choice sometimes, and you can do that in C++.

@AndyC:That's true, sometimes it might be down to choices, sometimes there might not be a choice. But I like to think, generally, it's down to options. Still it wouldn't be fair to call all the code horrible, and it doesn't make it less cleaner, generally speaking.

@TexasToast: I don't know where this "clean" myth comes from, and C++ code being horrible. It can be OO can it not? You can make neat abstractions as deep as you want, can you not? Heck you can even have multiple inheritance in more than a way. Give it a chance and use it some more, when you're thinking horrible. It really depends what you're doing. It's OK to use C# and C++ in the same project, it really is, you don't have to use one language for everything That's rather limited.

I would advise to check the new standard, just to see the kind of changes C++'s got. I wouldn't call that stagnation.

I tend to prefer C++ nowadays, but that doesn't mean I wouldn't enjoy building some rich UI with WPF using C#. Sometimes I do wish C# had multiple inheritance or templates to aid solving the particular problem I'm working on in a nicer clever way. Sometimes I wish C++ had reflection. That's fine, nothing wrong in combining tools, that's what they were made for.

@Ray7:I don't know what is anyone using it for, but as far as I seen, it's not usable for me who happens to have 40-80 tabs open all the time

I do, but if you happen to run iTunes on Windows for whatever reason, you'll get the updater for "free"

Opera web browser, more than 5 tabs and it becomes unresponsive and unusable, unless you want to fight with it

Windows Media Player, I just don't like it very much, and it is slow

Adobe Reader and Flash, for all the security updates

Apple Software Update, on Windows

nevermind

If I recall it doesn't work out of the box and you have to put effort to get similar functionality ala Dropbox, additionally it only allows one connection per account IIRC, so if OneNote is already connected using the public API or whatever (the funny looking link), then another tool cannot. That is enough, at least for me, to avoid it. The power of defaults.

Speaking as an end user of course

@magicalclick:Actually everything is allocated on the heap, except for value types, so the resources are not released until the GC feels like it, even in static methods

@Dr Herbie:IEnumerable<IFruit> fruits = IReturnAnIEnumerableOfApples(); // IFruit <- IApple