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Microsoft's New Programming Language, "M"

Posted by timothy on from the well-it-sounds-delicious dept.

Anthony_Cargile writes "Microsoft announced Friday their new 'M' language, designed especially for building textual domain-specific languages and software models with XAML. Microsoft will also announce Quadrant, for building and viewing models visually, and a repository for storing and combining models using a SQL Server database. While some say the language is simply their 'D' language renamed to a further letter down the alphabet, the language is criticized for lack of a promised cross-platform function because of its ties to MS SQL server, which only runs on Windows."

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  1. Re:Link to Register Article by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Troll

  2. Re:That sound that you hear... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    That's the downside of the popular internet - being able to loose your family photos on an unsuspecting public.

  3. Re:lame by Gruff1002 · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    This is utter nonsense, "My company gets all the Microsoft development tools for free. Customers love the price, but then later realize that they must buy a server to run in on, a copy of Windows, a server to run SQL on, a copy of Microsoft SQL Server, licenses, licenses to allow 'anonymous' internet connections, copies of Microsoft Office 2007 to be able to read the reports it spits out in Word 2007 format, etc... ...and the price balloons by thousands of dollars. Yeah, your doing real justice with your customer's. This is another M$ proprietary thing. And then you have the gall to mention Unix.