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Original Post: XML and SQL built in?
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For those of you already familiar with C#, it's clear that Xen is simply C# with additional features and capabilities. In fact, it's just C# with two of its most used APIs -- XML and database manipulation -- now built directly into the language
The architects behind Xen believe that if an API is used frequently, it should be considered for incorporation into the primary language. The popularity of XML and relational data structures make them the most likely candidates for inclusion.
I'm a little skeptical. I can't really see the difference between a decent library and adding to the language; then again, in Smalltalk that difference is, in fact, a very hard to see line - nearly everything in Smalltalk is the library. What this will likely amount to is a larger set of built in features in C#, which will serve mostly to complicate the beast. Just how many reserved words are there in C# now? Smalltalk has 5....
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