Today, I was working on porting a EAN128-parser from Java to C#. The parser itself was initially written in C and porting it from there to Java was already quite easy – sure. It still looks like C, but it works nicely and thankfully, understanding the algorithm once and writing it was enough for me, so I can live with not-so-well looking Java code.
What made me write this entry though is the fact that porting the Java version over to C# involved three steps:
- Copy
- Paste
- Change byte barCode[] to byte[] barCode
It’s incredible how similar those two languages are – at least if what you are working with more or less uses the feature set C provided us with.
gnegg 