[GRLUG] Rosetta Code Question [Was: Deserializing JSON in .NET (C#)]

[Adam Tauno Williams]

On Wed, 2010-08-25 at 09:20 -0400, Michael Mol wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 5:58 AM, Adam Tauno Williams
> <awilliam at whitemice.org> wrote:
> > On Tue, 2010-08-24 at 22:41 -0400, Dave Brondsema wrote:
> >> I bet you'd look on rosetta code if there were a page for it ;)  I
> >> started http://rosettacode.org/wiki/JSON
> >> Mike, btw, I'd suggest removing JSON as a language altogether.
> > If I implement a solution *using an assembly* does that count as a
> > solution?  I see the "import json" example for Python, while on the
> > other hand the json_decode is more or less built into PHP.  So if I
> > write a decoder in C# using "using Hyena.JSON" does that could as a "C#
> > solution"?
> Yes. The usual way that would work would be:
> (start example)
> =={{header|C sharp|C#}}==
> {{libheader|Hyena}}
> <lang csharp>// C# code</lang>
> (/end example)
> Template:libheader identifies the library which was used. (There's no
> specific rule about non-public libraries, but I would strongly
> discourage it)

Ok, cool.

> C# is an odd duck. Because of the hash character, we have to think of
> it internally as C sharp, and display it as C#, otherwise links to it
> wind up at C. Before moving to VPS, a bug in Apache's mod_rewrite
> forced us to do the same thing with C++. (Moving to a VPS server
> allowed us to run a newer version of Apache.)

Yea, searching for "C#" in search engines pretty much sucks too.
Whoever suggested with that name should have been slapped on the back of
the head - "no punctuation in names!"  Like we didn't learn anything
from "C++".  It should have been named "Cascal" - the love child
resulting from C++ and Pascal have a night of passion together.



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