[Mono-list] Comparing .NET CLI implementations

[Michael Torrie]

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On Tue, 2002-04-09 at 17:40, Brad Wilson wrote:
> Toby DiPasquale wrote:
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> > .NET is Microsoft's new development platform, in answer to Java, that w=
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> > allow multiple languages to compile to the same bytecode, thus, allowin=
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> > execution and integration of a mixed-code environment.
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> As someone who has spent a lot of time in the Microsoft world, this sound=
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> like the answer of a Java person. ;) J++ and J# are Microsoft's answers t=
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> Java. The .NET framework is the next evolution in COM(+), as promised so
> many years ago (was that the 1997 PDC when they were talking about the ne=
xt
> version of COM that would integrate garbage collection?). Many of the thi=
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> that were promised and delivered in COM+ were significantly enhanced in .=
NET
> (multi-language support, attributed programming, etc.).

No I'd say the previous person is correct.  .NET is a direct response to
Java.  Java was intended to be far more than a language.  .NET is
competing directly with Java EE.  The same ideas behind J2SDKEE are
behind .NET and the new web-based .NET applications.  Until recently,
any really big enterprise application on the web was only done in Java.=20
MS recognized that they would lose out.  So they came up with .NET.  The
nice thing about .NET is that it is also a convenient way to escape the
dead-end win32 api.  So in reshaping the whole of Windows around .NET,
they can compete very well with Java EE, and get a nice fresh future in
the process.  (Although I imagine that progammin in .NET will always be
tied to win32 using tons of pinvoke calls.)

So far I like what I see in mono, because I could care less about the
.NET framework.  It's the CLR and C# that interest me at the moment.

Michael


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> It minimizes the major leaps .NET has made over Java to say is just an
> "answer" to it, IMO. Clearly the non-Windows crowd recognizes this value,
> because we have Mono and .GNU. :)
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> Brad
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