Don't take it bad, but I think you completely miss the issues. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] The author for the freeware multi-tier middleware MidWare The author of the freeware Internet Component Suite (ICS) http://www.overbyte.be
----- Original Message ----- From: "CubicDesign" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Borland's Delphi Discussion List" <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, November 10, 2006 2:05 PM Subject: Re: It will .Net eat other languages? > No offense, but how many times did you used 'virtual (VM)' and 'Java' in > that text? > > I never saw the full picture in front of my eyes until now. > I think is time for Microsoft to write a REAL operating system instead > of tossing other virtual layers, virtual machines and virtual stuffs in > top of the existing one, and then tell us (to programmers) that all we > did was wrong and we have to re-do all our code! > > 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. > "But do not worry guys (programmers) we have something new for you: we > put a little bit of virtual sugar with coffee flavor in top of the old > swill and everything will be as new, for few years until we change it > again. All you have to do is to rewrite all your code." > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------- > > > > 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
