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Why Doesn't .NET Include a Linker?

Posted by Cliff on from the down-with-static-executables dept.

CrypticSpawn asks: "I read an article on Joel on Software it talks about Microsoft missing one important thing from the .NET infrastructure, and I wanted to know what Slashdot readers thought were Microsoft's reasons for leaving [a linker] out?"

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  1. Do you mean... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    Something similar to the JAva linkeR ???

    I've used it-- very effective.

  2. Re:silly objection, and- you can get a linker! by Elwood+P+Dowd · · Score: 4, Funny

    And you can include .NET in your installer too. This is like complaining YOU STILL NEED JAVA, or YOU STILL NEED GLIBC. Of course you fucking do.

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  3. Re:silly objection, and- you can get a linker! by RevAaron · · Score: 4, Funny

    Heh. I'm going to write an article about "Linux's biggest oversight." Why should I need libc, or even worse, libc++ to run KDE or GNOME? SICK! WRONG!

    Unless it's written in assembly, with no calls to any library, I won't run it. The only thing allowed is calls to interrupts or BIOS. DOS, here I come! (back)

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  4. Re:silly objection, and- you can get a linker! by spitzak · · Score: 3, Funny

    In fact you could make an installer that contains the entire operating system! Why doesn't Microsoft allow that? Or why don't Linux apps come that way? Just imagine how convienent it would be if every program came with it's own copy of the operating system, modified to work perfectly with that program!

    I agree with most of the posters here, this Joel guy does not know what he is talking about, or he thought he could get site hits by making up a silly complaint about Microsoft.

  5. Re:silly objection, and- you can get a linker! by JDWTopGuy · · Score: 5, Funny

    In fact you could make an installer that contains the entire operating system!

    I believe emacs has something like that.

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