Redundancy in C#?

Question

Take the following snippet:

List distances = new List();

Was the redundancy intended by the language designers? If so, wh

Answer 1

Your particular example is indeed a bit verbose but in most ways C# is rather lean.

I'd much prefer this (C#)

int i;

to this (VB.NET)

Dim i as Integer

Now, the particular example you chose is something about .NET in general which is a bit on the long side, but I don't think that's C#'s fault. Maybe the question should be rephrased "Why is .NET code so verbose?"