From: Adam 

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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