RE: [Dev-C++] A few notes re: C#

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> From: dev...@li... 
> [mailto:dev...@li...] On Behalf 
> Of Bob Wilson
> Sent: Wednesday, July 03, 2002 7:12 AM
> To: Dev-C++ User Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [Dev-C++] A few notes re: C#
> 
> 
> Ioqnnis,
> 
> > The summary is, a lot of people will learn it to make .NET 
> applications,
> > but we did not need it. It's here to lock in programmers to 
> the windows
> > platform and to lure Java coders.
> 
> Sorry, but I do not totally agree with you.
> 
> Yes, people will learn it in order to make .NET applications, 
> but the whole
> point of .NET is that they don't have to learn a new 
> language. What is at
> the very heart of .NET is that you can use any language which 
> will produce
> the intermediate code that the .NET runtime understands, and there are
> several compilers of various languages which do so and 
> promises of more
> every day.


Yes, .NET is a cool idea. I was talking about YAPL.


> Certainly Microsoft wishes to make its operating system more 
> appealing to
> programmers of every ilk because it will eventually enhance 
> the MS bottom
> line. Frankly I do not begrudge Microsoft making money off of 
> it if .NET
> both makes applications more portable, and makes it possible 
> to more easily
> combine components from different languages into a finished product.


It makes languages interoperable in the MS platform, but portable is a
"big word". I like .NET.



Ioannis

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