Yeah, it's Java's fault that people write bad software. They should use C because C programs never gobble up system resources or produce voluminous, useless logs.
I guess you haven't heard of Office... file incompatibility
Or product activation. Or service packs that break third-party business apps. Or the outrageous new licensing scheme they forced on their corporate customers a few years ago.
Nobody is suggesting that they'll do anything soon. I wouldn't expect any sort of move like this until after Longhorn is out and.Net is in wide use. That would also give the lawsuits time to die down.
But his point is that those libraries are not included with Rotor. You can marvel at the CLI source and maybe write a command-line "Hello world" program in C#, but that's about it.
If they haven't released an update of their crippled platform in 18 months, then his point is not B.S. For all intents and purposes, from the user's point of view, Rotor is not being developed.
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We're old and have bad memories.
We're old and have bad...something-or-others.
Who are you, and what do you want?
Yeah, that follows.
But God help you if you take a picture of one of their loading docks.
Well, Borland's designs, which MS essentially bought.
Yeah, it's Java's fault that people write bad software. They should use C because C programs never gobble up system resources or produce voluminous, useless logs.
Or product activation. Or service packs that break third-party business apps. Or the outrageous new licensing scheme they forced on their corporate customers a few years ago.
Nobody is suggesting that they'll do anything soon. I wouldn't expect any sort of move like this until after Longhorn is out and .Net is in wide use. That would also give the lawsuits time to die down.
Microsoft add proprietary extensions to an existing, widely used standard? What a silly idea!
Ewww.
So insanity isn't good? Damn! :: /me resumes taking his meds ::
But his point is that those libraries are not included with Rotor. You can marvel at the CLI source and maybe write a command-line "Hello world" program in C#, but that's about it.
If they haven't released an update of their crippled platform in 18 months, then his point is not B.S. For all intents and purposes, from the user's point of view, Rotor is not being developed.
I didn't realize that .NET is an entire operating system.
That doesn't mean that the platform is useless.
As long as you use Windows.
Um, so layers are bad? Or is insanity good? (I lean toward the latter, myself.)
The "g" in the first one stand for "generics", while the "g" in the second one stands for "genericsless". Duh.
This is, presumably, a different set of FOSS developers than the one whose members bitch about TrollTech not releasing GPL'ed Qt on Windows.
Creating a pointer to a chunk of memory you just malloc'd must've been a bitch.
Yes. And remember, antibiotics won't help because Mono is GPL, and therefore viral.
That's called "abstraction". It is a Good Thing (tm).
Without abstraction, we'd still be programming by flipping switches to set individual bits.
A fate worse than death.
Hey, anything to keep the actual amount of meat down. Meat's expensive!
Pfeh. You kids and your toys. If backing up to floppies is good enough for me, then it's good enough for you!
Good point. Before testing Mozilla's startup speed, please apply ice to your disk cache.
I heard there's a "Linux" extension to Emacs that lets you edit text with vi.
:: sigh :: Flew right over my head.