[hirvi74]

One issue I have with all these syntax changes is that they are all just more overhead for one to remember. All for what though? Just to just save a few more keystrokes?

I work on multiple applications with different versions of C# and/or Dotnet. I find it quite annoying to have to remember what syntax sugar is allowed in which versions.

If C# did not want verbose syntax, then Java was a poor choice to imitate.

[pjmlp]

C# only exists because Sun did not allow Microsoft to keep using J++.

Without the lawsuit, COM+ Runtime (aka .NET) would have used J++, as originally designed in the Ext-VOS paper.