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One Runtime To Bind Them All

Posted by Hemos on from the looking-at-CLR dept.

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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  1. So it binds them all... by Cruciform · · Score: 1, Redundant

    But how do you put it on your finger, does it hide your slashdot surfing from your department head? :)

  2. Re:Closed standard? Open Standard? I pick door #2 by the+eric+conspiracy · · Score: 2, Redundant

    MS tried the embrace and extend strategy with Java, remember? And they ran into a huge roadblock. Namely Java is not an open standard . Despite what Sun says in the press releases the standard is not open in the same sense. Sun controls it and Sun can shut down any attempt to create a non-conforming version.

    Java is controlled through the trademark, not the language standard. Microsoft is free to embrace and extend Java all they want (and the have in fact with C# and J#). What Microsoft cannot do is call their variant Java.

    Jack William Bell, who likes the idea of coding with mix-n-match programming languages.

    As somewone who has to maintain code from time to time, the idea horrifies me.

  3. and One Bug To Crash Them All by questionlp · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I think the subject says it all ;-)

  4. Why M$ doesn't get unbiased reviews by A+nonymous+Coward · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Suppose I know someone, better off than most, who is always being caught up in one lie or another. Maybe not an outright lie, maybe just a little exageration. He claims to have given me a birthday present, when it actually came from someone else -- and everyone knows that. His proof that he owns a Ferrari is an obviously doctored picture. He takes advantage of others bad luck by loaning a small amount of money for lots of collateral, then finds excuses for not redeeming the loan later. He's always got some new investment scheme, takes people's money, then always has excuses for why the scheme failed and you don't get your money back.

    I'm sure most of us know people like that.

    Now this acquaintance comes along with yet another great investment scheme. Do you believe him?

    Once burned, twice shy.

    Burn me once, shame on you. Burn me twice, shame on me.

    And if you can't read between the lines, well, you will some day.

    --
    Infuriate left and right