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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. Is that a fact? by fullgandoo · · Score: 1, Troll

    "is the sound of a company dieing . . ."

    in your wet dream, most likely.

    "in the last 5 years"

    .NET has met with great success, C# along with VS is perhaps the most productive development environment, MS Office has a revamped interface that people really like once they've used it for a while, Vista is steadily gaining acceptance, IE7 has a better interface IMHO and is faster than Firefox or Safari, IIS has greatly eroded the dominance of Apache . . .

    And Windows is on a majority of smartphones around the world.

    World leaders they still are, no country has actually "rejected" MS. Their market value is still intact.

    The only rotting corpse on the sidewalk is perhaps "Linux on the desktop".

    But alternate views are not appreciated on Slashdot and I expect to be immediately modded down sub-zero.

  2. This just in.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    When questioned on what new, essential features the then-unnamed language was to bring to the table, the lead engineer replied with a phrase similar to the following..

    "Ummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm"

    And thus, the 'M' programming language was born.

  3. Re:lame by hfybro · · Score: 0, Troll

    great. another language to learn that is completely useless and no one will use.. And I'm not trolling, this glut of languages is fucking ridiculous. Why not clean up the fucking dotnet framework reference dlls?

    great. another language to learn that is completely useless and no one will use.. And I'm not trolling, this glut of languages is fucking ridiculous. Why not clean up the fucking dotnet framework reference dlls?

    WE ARE STILL AT C LANGUAGE CAN NOT MAKE IT TO M AND P SORRY ENERGY IN THE BATTERY IS GONE WITH UNCLE SAM DR. C