Hi Bo.

21-Sep-03 17:48:52, Bo Simonsen wrote to Jerry Coffin


 BS> Hello Jerry!

 BS> *** 20.09.2003 at 08:34, Jerry Coffin wrote to you:

 BS> >>Ofcause, but why is it smart, if you only are programming in the
 BS> same >>programming language? It's only somekind of luxurary imho.

 JC>> It means that libraries of code written in _any_ of those
 JC>> languages are available for your use, so code written in (say) VB
 JC>> can be useful to you even if you never write a single line of VB
 JC>> in your life.

 BS> In someway it's smart, but it's not smart enought for me..

 BS> >>Why would you get .NET working on other platforms like Linux or
 BS> other >>UNIX'es.

 JC>> Because somebody wants it to run there, obviously.

 BS> I mean do you actually believe that Microsoft would make a VM for
 BS> Linux?

If M$ are playing fair (kinda hard for me to believe) then the details
needed to prodice such a VM are publicly avaialable and not subject to
monthly updates.

 BS> What generation of programming language would you say .NET is
 BS> then?

visul stuff is 3 or 4 somewhere  .net is too.

 BS> >>What open standards are .NET using?

 -=> Bye <=-

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