Nataraj S Narayan wrote:
Hi
Why is it that every body and anything got a Dot Net version?
Since it is a hype. And the general idea is, if you don't follow it now
you may miss the future
Even
Borland's got a dot net enabled Delphi coming it seems. Some say that
Microsoft got Dot net idea from Delphi.
In Linux there is a mono project. What could the advantages be ? Is it
for collaborative development? Where does all this leave Lazarus/Fpc?
see this FPC FAQ:
http://www.freepascal.org/faq.html#dotnet
Already my head is cluttered and confused with so many tools. One
company is offered me a job , if I could write the Suduku game using
Python. For my work I use Delphi/Lazarus and PHP. Now if I need to get
out of this company I need to go the dot net way.
There is no need for .NET
ppl think they need it.
Yeah, I understand, Computer Science is not like Physics or Mathematics.
Today's tech is dumped within few years.
Thats not really true. You still see pascal, C and basic programs
written. All languages from the past century.
The project I'm professionally working on started (for me) in 1998. We
almost use the same tech as we started the project. (good, we upgrades
from D4 to D5 to D6)
And in my expectation I'll coding in it for a while.
So, if you say that this tech will go in a few year... not in my case.
In general, following hypes is nice for little, shortterm projects, but
for bigger longterm projects, it is better to stick to existing technology.
Now for .NET, take the upcoming new MS frontend, Vista as an example.
They told that everything would be .NET
However when you google around (on the Lazarus forum you can find the
links) you can find articles of ppl who did an analyze of the number of
.NET apps coming with Vista. You can count them on one hand, while the
total number of non .NET apps is > 1000
Marc
Quantum mechanics and
Relativity is perennial as Calculus and Probablity theory. Is there
anything like that in CS? Maybe plain C or Pascal fits the bill?
My colleagues in other departments like Physics and Math regret they
dint go the CS route. But I regret I dint stick to Physics or
Mathematics. In these an Equation is always an equation. We dont have
another company coming up and throwing away an equation for a new one.
And we dont have to learn things from scratch to stay in the job.
regards
Nataraj
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