"I probably won't live long enough to ever have to program in C#"

Try it at least once, at least I will ;-)

As a matter of fact, one of our GUI user interface needs to be totally rewritten becaue of the user requirement changed. I am looking at C#, it was in Open Road (an engres thingy).

BTW, for most of the application areas, C# is not targetting any thing else, but Java. GUI application is a good candidator to try C# with, because of the IDE. I took a look at the way C# defines event, handles event are quite interesting. C# even tries to beat Java with small things like how to define getters and setters.

Perl should not be the one feels the most pressure from C#. For example, in this case, as a GUI interface thing, at least from my point of view, Perl is not a candidator any way.

C# even tries to beat Java with small things like how to define getter
+s and setters.
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Thats just syntactic sugar. You may be able to use "properties" but in essence they just get re-written to the underlying subroutines anyway. Of course if you use code completion incorrectly you can get bitten :). Here's some recursive property code just for fun.

using System;

public class MyClass
{
    private string person = "";

    public string Person
    {
        set
        {
            this.Person = value;
        }
        
        get
        {
            return this.person;
        }
    }

    public static void Main()
    {
        MyClass app = new MyClass();
        app.run();
    }

    public void run()
    {
        string temp = "temp";

        // Crash me
        this.Person = temp;
    }
}
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Though I confess writing your own array accessor for an object is nice.