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____/ Chris Ahlstrom on Tuesday 28 Jun 2011 22:18 : \____
> Roy Schestowitz wrote this copyrighted missive and expects royalties:
>
>> ____/ White Spirit on Tuesday 28 Jun 2011 14:13 : \____
>>
>>> On 28/06/2011 13:15, Chris Ahlstrom wrote:
>>>
>>>> It's just another vendor's "stack". If it weren't for Microsoft's control
>>>> of the whole platform, it would just be another dev stack to compare to the
>>>> offerings of other vendors.
>>>
>>> The only reason Windows programmers like .Net is because the previous
>>> technologies such as Windows API, COM and AFX were so horrible. That
>>> was one of the reasons M$ developed .Net but, even then, some of the
>>> uglier aspects of Win32 are still present in Windows Forms, Windows
>>> handles being a good example. Qt doesn't expose the uglier aspects of
>>> Win32 that Windows Forms does so it begs the question just why they are
>>> present in .Net. Either M$ is too incompetent to abstract its own APIs
>>> in an elegant manner or they deliberately introduced such 'features' in
>>> order to prevent cross-platform compatibility.
>>>
>>> Regarding M$ copying Java, the fact that M$ attempted to subvert the
>>> Java API by introducing deliberate incompatibilities is a matter of
>>> public record. After being successfully sued by Sun for breaching their
>>> licence terms, M$ introduced J# as a transition from M$' Java
>>> implementation, which would become C# not long afterwards. I really
>>> don't know how anyone can be idiotic enough to pretend that C# isn't
>>> heavily based on Java. M$ might have extended the language and created
>>> their own libraries but the core of the language is a Java clone that
>>> arose from the deliberate hi-jacking of standards that M$ relies on to
>>> compete with other technologies.
>>
>> Comes vs. Microsoft has court evidence to unequivocally support the
>> allegations above.
>
> Oh, that is indisputable. But, as a piece of technology, .NET has merit.
So does its competition.
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