From: Jeff Roberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
jeffr> A .NET port of OpenSSL would require replacing the C style DLL
jeffr> interface with a .NET Object DLL. The OpenSSL source code
jeffr> would have to be able to be compiled under the C# (pronounced c
jeffr> sharp) compiler. Microsoft has just released Visual Studio
jeffr> 7.0. Version 7.0 produces .NET dll's. exe's, etc. The new
jeffr> framework that is required to execute a .NET component (dll or
jeffr> exe) is called the common language runtime (CLR). A .NET
jeffr> component gets just in time compiled (JIT) when it is needed
jeffr> and optimized for the operating system and hardware it is
jeffr> running under. When future 64 bit versions of Windows arrive,
jeffr> .NET components will already be 64 bit when run under the new
jeffr> operating system.
Let's see, you're saying that a true .NET component must (or is it
only "should"?) be written in C#, and at the same time you mention the
Common Language Runtime, which suggests that the language isn't really
that important (at least that's how I understand the words in that
name). So which is it, is there a CLR that means that components can
be built in any language or not. If I'm guessing correctly, it would
be possible to create a .NET DLL from C source, no?
I doubt, just as everyone else, that the C# language will have that
much of an impact, there just is waaaay too much written in C or C++
that people will want to keep.
Also, trying to predict the death of anything non-M$ has been
attempted for the last xx years (I can recall about 11 such years),
and still the Unixly platforms exist today and are growing. Even
OpenVMS, which was pronounced dead by everyone not in the VMS
community about 5 years ago, still lives and goes on strongly in it's
sector. So please, don't even try to tell us the same bullshit that
has been fed down our throats for so long, you won't be more credible
than your predecessors (sp?).
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