[ale] .NET

[Matthew Brown]

I agree with most of this.

The XML is mostly hype for now from what I've heard.  They say they've
opened up the file formats via XML, but what I've heard is that it's
basically an XML wrapper with all the good stuff wrapped in CDATA.

In terms of C#, I don't know.  I've used it and it's a lot like Java,
which is cool, but hey, didn't we already have Java.

The Common Language Runtime is probably the coolest trick of all the
.NET stuff IMHO.  BUT, I can't help but wonder if that doesn't basically
just make all the languages run like Java.  I guess it boils down to the
differences between a Runtim and a Virtual Machine.  I have not thought
through the comparison.

Eric Anderson also had a good point...  If all the languages are
compiled down to the same IL, do they still have their relative
strengths and weaknesses, or all those "boiled out"?

Best regards,
Matthew Brown, President
CorData, Inc.
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-----Original Message-----
From: Mike Millson [mailto:mgm at atsga.com] 
To: ale at ale.org
Sent: Thursday, October 31, 2002 11:37 AM
To: ale at ale.org
Subject: RE: [ale] .NET


So when does a Microsoft solution make more sense? Can you give me any
concrete examples?

Mike

-----Original Message-----
From: Dennany, Jerome {D177~Roswell} [mailto:JEROME.DENNANY at ROCHE.COM]
To: ale at ale.org
Sent: Thursday, October 31, 2002 10:41 AM
To: ale at ale.org
Subject: RE: [ale] .NET


.NET is a good thing, in my opinion.

1.  .NET promotes XML message and storage formats for cross-platform,
cross-language interop.

2.  Mono.  Don't like Microsoft?  That's ok, join the Mono team.

3.  C# is a cool language.  I haven't had this much fun programming in
some
time.

4.  Visual Studio.NET is hands down one of the best IDEs on the market
today.  IntelliSense rocks.

I've been programming in C# for about a year, and it (with some
exceptions)
is stable and pretty much bug free (especially for a v1.0 product!)

I enjoy linux, and use it here at work when it makes more sense then
Windows.  However, I'll continue to also use Microsoft solutions when
they
make more sense, as well.

Just my US$.02

Jerry Dennany


-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Golden [mailto:naugrim at email.byu.edu]
To: ale at ale.org
Sent: Wednesday, October 30, 2002 11:06 PM
To: ale at ale.org
Subject: [ale] .NET


Greetings,
	I just went to an MS presentation about .NET here at my school
and of
course their presentation was all in favor of it. I came out of the
presentation with a free copy of WinXP Pro and Visual Studio.NET
Academic Edition, but also thinking that it isn't that bad of an idea
but not my style and I'll avoid it. But, I'm interested in hearing what
people think here both positively and negatively as it applies to Linux
and to computing in general (honestly don't care about the windows only
part). How will it affect us good or bad? What problems are there with
it?

Michael




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