From: "Antti Kurenniemi" 

"Geo"  wrote in message
news:428aadb7$2{at}w3.nls.net...
>> I don't know. Maybe they needed something "new" to make
a big hoopla
> about.
>> Probably Java had a lot to do with it, which would explain why MS created
> a
>> new "platform" that is almost as sucky as Java instead
of making just a
> new
>> language (C#). Now, a C# compiler that generates Win32 apps, that I would
>> like a lot.
>
> I probably wouldn't mind if it was just C# but now anything written with
> visual studio stuff other than C# also requires the framework, does it
> not?

There is "unmanaged" C++, which is ye olde Win32 compiled C++,
which does not need the .net runtime. VB.NET does need it, as does ASP.NET.


Antti Kurenniemi

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