Hi, Francois and all
To amplify your point more explicitly, .NET is a software architecture,
which includes a Common Language Runtime environment and an intermediate
language into which various languages can be compiled just like the JVM is a
virtual machine, which is a program that accepts java byte codes and
converts them into locally-executable code and which currently runs in host
operating systems with host-system-specific run-time libraries and
environment layers. Whereas JavaOS is an effort to build an operating
system/environment to replace the host operating system/environment to host
a JVM and provide the complete software for a runtime environment for
executing programs written for the JVM in Java or any other JVM-language,
Prolog, Pascal, Forth, Java, Eiffel, a version of Matlab, and maybe some day
Delphi. However, that in no way makes a JVM a replacement for the host
operating system as a whole, nor does it make .NET an operating system per
se. You said it well, "running atop Windows."
----- Original Message -----
From: "Francois Piette" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Borland's Delphi Discussion List" <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, November 09, 2006 4:12 PM
Subject: Re: It will .Net eat other languages?
>> Is time for me to drop Delphi and start learning that .Net stuff?
>
> You can write .net application using Delphi today !
> You don't need to abandon Delphi to write .NET applications. Just continue
> to use Delphi !
>
> btw: Reading your post, I think you are confusing .net with a language (C#
> ?). But .net is /not/ a language. It is mostly and operating system
> curently
> running on top of Windows. That OS support many languages, including C#,
> C++, VB and... Delphi !
>
>> 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...)?
>
> OLE, COM and ActiveX are still there today and heavily used and will for
> sure be use for years.
> Dotnet will /not/ fade away anytime soon, IMO.
>
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