The Shining Source

I just discovered J# (it came with my Visual Studio .net). It uses the exact same syntax as Java, though it is made by Microsoft, probably as an attempt to convert Java fans. I still have to find any real advantage of J# since i just started with it today, but i imagine it has, like java, automatic memory management, and that it probably doesn't need a virtual machine, which would make it faster perhaps.
I'm happy with it though, because it's another language i can claim to know rather well.

lol!!! So if you know Java, you know J# as well?

So that makes one more language I know nothing of...

Probably like C# ... it's a nice idea but I think it won't convert the Java Programmers due to :
-Java is more platform independent than .NET (as far as I know the .NET stuff is still mostly windows...)
-usually if you use Java for this online purposes (if you know java you know what I mean Javabeans, RPC, Sun ONE) there is no necessary to change.
-Another thing is - like in C# vs C++ you will find small differences between the "original" and it's follow up.

I guess the most curious thing about that is that Microsoft has severe fights with Sun and Java (stuff like the lack of a virtual java machine in XP because they didn't implement it the according to the standard etc)... well they gotta know

Like all MS languages - Microsoft have included the standard libraries of the code, but have extended the API for integrated MS-only commands.
Plus, the .NET framework is language independent with respect to Visual languages, so you can write bits in J#, C# & VB.NET to work together.

Tasty work for MS-platform developers.

http://go-mono.net/

Don't have Linux so I don't know how good Mono is, but it certainly sounds promising.

 Where can i get one like that?  ?

If J# has the same syntax as Java, maybe Sun will sue Microsoft, distroying everything windows-compatible and starting an *nix revolution!!!!!!

Did I mention I have to re-install windows at least 4 times a year?

I've gone a total of 8 years without a Windows re-install (XP and WinMe), and Ubuntu only worked on 1 of my 3 PCs. I've looked at Linux, and when I get my new computer I'll install it on my laptop.

At the end of the day, it's only an operating system. I'd rather go outside

As a follow up, I'm currently running Mepis on my laptop, which is the first Linux distro that's ever got this far. It might even get the privelage of being installed alongside XP