From: Ellen K. 

I don't think Java yet has a way you can decide things belong on the stack, or?

On Tue, 17 May 2005 12:58:42 +0100, Adam
 wrote in message
:

>Mike N. wrote:
>
>> On Tue, 17 May 2005 05:59:40 -0400, "Geo"
 wrote:
>>
>>
>>>the question I have to ask is do you think MS created .NET because it was
>>>needed or because they needed to replace Sun's Java?
>>
>>
>>    It's a little of both - they needed to compete with Java, but decided to
>> create a higher level of programming abstraction.  C# is basically 'Java
>> V2.0' - Java with improvements.    Aside from being a very large library,
>> ADO going through a new level of abstraction for every major release, it is
>> a very productive development environment for a large class of
>> applications.
>>
>
>It cuts both ways. Have a look at java 1.5......& then compare to c#.
>Most of the differences have gone.
>
>Adam

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