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You're conflating innovation with discovery/invention. Innovation isn't simply "think of/create something new", it includes incremental changes to something, leveraging an existing thing in a new way, etc.

.NET is certainly not "a copy" of Java, it's just Java done correctly ;-)

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Incorrectly. Wherever they deviated from Java they messed up. See exceptions, for example: https://mckoder.medium.com/the-achilles-heel-of-c-why-its-ex...

"Incorrect" okay, based on a brand-new-to-C# developer's experience. Sure.

"The Trouble with Checked Exceptions" - https://www.artima.com/articles/the-trouble-with-checked-exc...

In the linked article, Hejlsberg considers adding a new checked exception a breaking change (true), but adding a new thrown exception to not be, because "in a lot of cases, people don't care." I think this is obviously open to debate.

You're conflating "incorrect" with "mistake," no one is saying the C# team forgot to add checked exceptions.

I have a lot of respect for Anders Hejlsberg. But that doesn't mean he is never wrong. Hejlsberg doesn't think anyone would want to recover from exceptions. "There's a bottom level exception handler around their message loop. That handler is just going to bring up a dialog that says what went wrong and continue." Okaayyy... I think we know a bit more about exception handling than that today! Real-world applications often need more sophisticated exception handling strategies.

"Something went wrong."

[no option to continue]

Those are our error messages of today.

And yes, even the brightest can be wrong from time to time or frequently

> Those are our error messages of today.

Is that in your .NET code? Time to switch to Java!

Surely you're not arguing in favour of checked exceptions, which are widely regarded by Java programmers as a mistake, are you? (not sure but I think I saw you argue in favour of that previously before getting quickly pointed out all the issues with checked exceptions)

In either case I encourage you to try out .NET before making a statement, there's a good chance it will pleasantly surprise you.

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