From: "Gary Britt" 

.Net Framework runs on Linux?  What platform other than windows does it run
on?  Is "managed code" worth layering the program inside a
runtime non-compiled environment?  Wouldn't the same program in straight
win32 be faster to execute?  What is "managed code"?

Gary

"Robert Comer"  wrote in
message news:428a29d5{at}w3.nls.net...
> .NET isn't restricted to Windows even now, but in theory it could be
> extended to any platform, unlike machine code.
>
> The big thing even if it were only Win32 is managed code.
>
> - Bob Comer
>
>
>
> Gary Britt"  wrote in message
> news:428a263e$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> Why use .Net at all??  Since .Net runs in a runtime environment and only
on
> Win32, why use .Net at all?  I mean why not just cut out the runtime layer
> bloat and go straight to win32 programming??  At least with Java the
> supposed ability to run on different platforms is what made the runtime
> layer worth having at all right?
>
> Gary
>
>

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