[Acero]

C# is great and so much more time efficient. But I'll always have a special place in my heart for C++, there is something that just looks so elegant about how complicated it is.

Originally Posted by Japo

I found this funny and quite eloquent. In this MSDN walkthrough article there are alternative samples in different COM-aware languages. This is one of them in C#:

using System;
using SideBySideLib;

class Example
{
   static void Main()
   {
      var obj = new SideBySideClassClass();
      Console.WriteLine(obj.Version());
      Console.ReadLine();
   }
}

To do the same in C++ you have to (and thank God you have Visual Studio):



Wow.