From: Adam 

Antti Kurenniemi wrote:

> It's more Java than improved C IMO, but it is a programming language. It
> just compiles (same way as VB.NET) into an app that requires the .NET
> framework to exist. Very similar to Java, where you compile the sources to
> some sort of mash (bytecode) that requires the Java runtime to be present.
>
> It is sort of nice in that the actual "compiled" app is very
small - I just
> made a tool that downloads, compresses and emails files from a server, with
> GUI, and it's 86 Kb in size. But then you'll need the multi-megabyte runtime
> to run it on.
>
> Or in another way: think of it as VB: you have the
"programming" language
> (), several different versions of the runtime which MS insists is no
> biggie but which users hate because they will eventually become a pain in
> the butt, and also developers will end up hating because you just can't
> count on the users having just the right runtime installed so you end up
> writing very small apps but having to package them with the runtime just to
> make sure the user gets the right one, and as a result you'll have a
"Hello,
> world!" app that is a 35Mb download and only runs on some
computers 
>

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http://sourceforge.net/projects/delphinet



Adam

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