On Wed, 11 Aug 2004 14:14:27 -0400 (EDT), Sam Tregar wrote:
Hi Folks
> That's certainly part of it. From a technology angle The Common
> Language Runtime (CLR) is obviously cool. All the .NET languages
> (C#,
> C++, VB) compile to a single portable object format and can
You might say Perl is its own CLR, and hence its own 'single portable
object format'.
Having said that, I must admit .NET is a juggernaut which can't be
stopped. That doesn't mean, though, it's of any value. More like it's
a risk to our careers if suits continue demanding code written in
.NET.
Looks into it and you'll see the deliberate, built-in-by-MS,
complexity is staggering, and if anyone took a rational decision they
would discard it the way Java is being discarded.
But then, Sun killed off Java back in January with their fake patches
to, I believe, the typing system, so who cares?
--
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Deakin University, 221 Burwood Highway, Burwood, VIC 3125, Australia
Phone: +61-3-9251 7067, Fax: +61-3-9251 7604
http://www.deakin.edu.au/~rsav
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