One Runtime To Bind Them All

Sowbug writes "Here's some interesting Saturday night reading: a critical examination of many of the advertised benefits of .NET's CLR (Common Language Runtime) and the other technologies (MSIL, CLS, CTS) that make it possible. It's written from the perspective of a Java advocate, Osvaldo Pinali Doederlein. "

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Re:apply the razor please

[Erris]

"Is the superiority of C#/.NET enough to offset the costs of moving to it from J2EE."

A tool that claims to do all things for all people never does anything well. C pound is one of those tools. The article does a good job showing how each of the implimented launguages applies its flaws to C pound rather than it's strengths. The result is a crippled java without multiple inheritences and most of the rest of java's strengths.

The reason people write that they don't like the new M$ toy is not because they don't like M$, it's because they don't like the new toy.

C pound has all the stench of the M$ fortran effort. Before they were the Empire of the Dumb, it was interesting to see a nice little DOS fortran compiler. Next they extended it to include support for their Win3.1 GUI with the user kernel. That was replaced with a 32 bit DOS extended compiler, which was in turn replaced with a module for their Developer, which promised to unite VB, C++ fortran and Java(? I can't remember if java made it in there). After all that jerk around, each transition breaking the previous extentions, the finally dropped it alltogether. They never seriously focused on the isssues that needed to be solved to make it more than a toy, ie be able to compile the tremendous body of legacy code, and in the end trashed it on their platform all together. These days real fortran work is a pain in the ass on M$, with each OS shift breaking the kludge that got around the last limitations. It's much easier to pick up comercial Linux compilers of G77, as everyone else focused on the strengths of fortran and made comilers that do useful work. M$'s effort to extinguish fortran on their platform has simply shifted physisists and others to other platforms.

Go download the .NET STANDARD, and go find the documents that Sun publishs about their technology.

Do you know what a standard is? The above shows not.