Andrew Lentvorski wrote:
.Net and the CLR kinda broke the *entire freakin' Windows API*.
I said "in many things." Obviously the CLR isn't a match for the
existing Windows API. On the other hand, you can invoke the existing
Windows stuff from C# quite easily.
Microsoft is a *lousy* example of backward compatibility on almost every
front.
Um, sure. Show me a 10-year-old Linux program or Mac program that runs
without recompiling?
And other projects like Apache, Python and Tcl *don't* don't break
backward compatibility on every minor release. In addition, they also
declare certain "business versions" that are then supported for much
longer than the intermediate ones.
Yep. That's why I use those tools instead of things like Ruby and Perl.
How many Java AWT-based applets still run?
Ummmm, almost all of them.
Damn. I couldn't even make them work right at the time! :-)
Just try to find a 1998 C/C++ program that runs without recompiling on a
2007 OS. Games are your best shot, and even most of them don't.
I'll grant you that Java stuff is probably the most portable compiled
code out there, yes. And Sun too has worked hard to maintain backwards
compatibility in the JVM at the expense of improving the language.
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