This is some how a continuation to the thread started by Francois: Which languages are you working in?
--- I saw that .Net came stronger, uglier, and bigger. I admit I did not try it and I have no reasons. I just another Java. Somehow a revenge from Microsoft because it lost that suit against SUN. I do not even know if I have it installed in my computer because I was too lazy to download that huge stuff to install it. And this is because I never ever found an application that requires .Net. There are no real motivations to use .Net: portability? Is a joke. The code is portable only on Windows and I do not think Linux will accept this wonder soon. All my current Delphi applications are also portable on all Windows platforms, so why switching to something to I already have? Running on a server? Again a bad joke. How many of the programmers have their own server? Because only few (and expensive) web hosting, companies allow you to put your .Net applications on their server. Even now, there are still many application who does a small thing (like comparing to files or merging some strings) and for this, their installation kit is bigger than 40MB. Why? They also deliver Java inside that package. This is what will happen with our Delphi applications? It will Delphi and all other COMPILED applications be replaced by .Net? Is time for me to drop Delphi and start learning that .Net stuff? Will be the whole MS Windows a .Net stuff or this 'miracle' will fade in time as other Microsoft 'revolutionary' technology did (remember OLE, COM, ActiveX...)? It is this just a game between Microsoft and Sun and we are in the middle or it is a good thing? Gabriel _______________________________________________ Delphi mailing list -> [email protected] http://www.elists.org/mailman/listinfo/delphi
