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Functional Languages Under .NET/CLR
Numen writes "With all the talk of .NET being thrown about there is a common factor occuring through many discussions, namely the claim that .NET will be unable to address functional and logic languages such as Prolog and LISP.
To this end I would like to drawn peoples' attention to two resources, that shown how this may well be a non-issue, and to ask, does this change anybodies mind?
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What I don't get about Physics is, years after my last U-Grad Physics course I STILL havn't found that frictionless frozen pond.
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A lot of the debate about .NET and the open source focuses on the technology, and not the strategy.
.NET? Well, .NET is a technology, but it is also a strategy. Its aim is to completely dominate software development in the future.
.NET to be successful, they need to win developers over to it. In order to do that, they need to give the appearence of it being an open and non-threatening platform to use. But that's only appearances. Their aim with .NET is to completely dominate the provision of any type of software service over the internet (which will include pretty much everything within a decade) and to get their slice of every transaction made.
.NET. If you think you will ever beat Microsoft by playing by their rules then you have your head in the sand. Think about what contingency plans Microsoft might have in place. Remember that they have a war mentality - what would you do if you were Microsoft? Think about the Haloween memos.
.NET strategy still vague, when Microsoft is "betting the barn" on it?
Let's consider some facts first. One of Microsoft's basic strategies is the complete domination of markets. They make no secret of this (although they have not been successful at it outside of the desktop space). Here are some instances where senior Microsoft people have stated they want to completely dominate a market:
1) Internet access with MSN.
2) The handheld market with Windows CE
3) The game console market with X-Box.
In all three cases above, they have made it clear that they intend to dominate that market, and have even stated that it is "the Microsoft way" to do so. They're not interested in 50%, they want 100. Admittedly they haven't yet been successful in this any of the above markets (in fact I think we can now safely say that they've failed with Internet access), but that is their intent.
So, what has this to do with
Now, Microsoft's strategists will have spent a long time thinking about this. They will have hypothosized about potential problems, and developed contingency plans. Microsoft knows that in order for
That's why I despair when I hear people in the Open Source community talk about implenting stuff in
Has anyone, for instance, looked through all Microsoft's patents, to check that their isn't a surprise that they could pull out of the sack if things aren't going their way? Has the Gnome Foundation, for instance, got the financial means to defend itself should Microsoft attack it legally? Why are some parts of the
.NET is perhaps great technology. But I implore everyone in the OSS community to stay away from it. Bill Gates will tell you that the best technology doesn't necessarily win in the long term, it is what has mindshare. OSS is getting more mindshare every day. Don't help MS by supporting their technologies. Your software project will get killed if it starts to threaten MS if you do.
how the hell was this modded down as a Troll? fscking stupid moderators...
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