On Wed, 11 Aug 2004, Bill McCormick wrote: > Can somebody tell me what all the .NET fuss is about?
Like the Java fuss, the .NET fuss is paid-for fuss. Microsoft funds advertising, articles, development and general hooplah which results in everyone "knowing" that .NET is all that and a whole lot more. > I don't really know much about it except that there sure seems to be a big > call for it. From what little I do know, It seems to come down to some IT > Directors personal preferance to a WIN ISS stack over a LAMP stack. Is there > something better about that world over ours? Of course, *ours* being > Linux-Apache-MySQL-Perl with heavy use of CGI::Application et.al. That's certainly part of it. From a technology angle The Common Language Runtime (CLR) is obviously cool. All the .NET languages (C#, C++, VB) compile to a single portable object format and can interoperate much more closely than before. On top of that, C# seems like an improvement over C++. It has a lot of the stuff that makes Java good and some new ideas too, like mixing managed and unmanaged code. That said, I won't be jumping ship any time soon. LAMP is still the fastest development environment for web-apps around, in my opinion. -sam --------------------------------------------------------------------- Web Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=cgiapp&r=1&w=2 To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
