CubicDesign wrote: > > I think Microsoft gave us since Windows 3 their swill operating system > and now they admit that was so bad that it must be replaced.
Vista is still a native Win32/64 operating system providing the good old Win32/64 API, I do not believe that this will change in the near future, it simply loads the .NET runtime environment by default. > All you have to do is to rewrite all your code." Unless Microsoft do not rewrite their own code don't panic. I was told that virtually nothing in Vista is .NET, nor is Office. Arno Garrels > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------- > > > > Paule Ecimovic wrote: >> 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. >>> >>> -- >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> Author of ICS (Internet Component Suite, freeware) >>> Author of MidWare (Multi-tier framework, freeware) >>> http://www.overbyte.be >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Delphi mailing list -> [email protected] >>> http://www.elists.org/mailman/listinfo/delphi >>> >>> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Delphi mailing list -> [email protected] >> http://www.elists.org/mailman/listinfo/delphi >> >> > _______________________________________________ > Delphi mailing list -> [email protected] > http://www.elists.org/mailman/listinfo/delphi _______________________________________________ Delphi mailing list -> [email protected] http://www.elists.org/mailman/listinfo/delphi
