27 Sep
2011
27 Sep
'11
5:50 a.m.
On Mon, 26 Sep 2011, Toby Thain wrote:
On 26/09/11 7:46 PM, David Griffith wrote:
You keep frothing at the mouth like that, someone's gonna think you've got
rabies and shoot you. :)
g.
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On Mon, 26 Sep 2011, Dave McGuire wrote:
How gullible are people? I mean what did you think it was FOR?
"Cross-platform" is absolute anathema to MS. Their desires are totalitarian,
period. They want to tax every computer sold. Oh, look! Almost there!
On 09/26/2011 12:59 PM, Fred Cisin wrote:
The thing that has always bugged me about .NET is that MS billed it as
cross-platform, then turned right around and made crucial libraries
Windows-only.
> Well the problem is that both their new
Lightswitch& upcoming Visual
> Studio 2011 products both fully support the .Net environment. To me,
> the
> only thing that would make .Net better is if the stupid compiler
> actually
> generated native code instead of that runtime crap.
Will people be offended if I call that MS-P-code?
It's obviously for trying to create multi-platform aps.
Heh. It's obviously an attempt at creating lots and lots of vendor
lock-in, and an attempt to be a better Java than Java. The former has
succeeded all over the place.