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> On Sat, 2004-05-22 at 12:04, Geoffrey wrote:
> > Christopher Fowler wrote:
> > > My only thing about C# is that it is too much like Java. Java can be
> > > considered IMHO as prior art.
> > 
> > So where is Sun on this?  You'd think they'd jump on that one, since 
> > Java is not open source.
> > 
> 
> I've done Java and tried C# and honestly I can not tell much of a
> difference.  One nice thing about C# is that you can interface with all
> the Windows API's. I'm sure such a facility could easily be created in
> Java as well.

Sure. You'd just have to run SWIG over several hundred-dozen
Windows headers and out pops your JNI code. No problem. Probably
already been done scores of times.

>  C# does not aim to be portable so I do not understand the
> need for byte-code class files.  Compile the source straight to metal
> and forget about the other stuff.  The only benefit of the byte-code
> would be for the transmission and dealing with objects as data.

Does .NET encourage that sort of thing? It seems to me that
the CLI (and C# by implication) *does* try to be portable,
and the case in point is Mono.

Anyway, I'm *astonished* that *anyone* in the FLOSS community
is even *considering* using any technology pushed by Micro$oft.

-- Joe

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