On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 05:22:26PM -0400, David Grove wrote:
> > > am seeing some similarities between some of the proposed goals of
> > > Perl 6 and the .NET platform.
> > > . . . many things in .NET have been discussed similarly here.
> >
> > That's because .NET attempts to address real-world issues.
> > The goals of .NET are not evil in and of themselves, you know.
>
> Depends on whether you believe MS marketing. Once you dig through all the
> manure, you end up with some pretty basic concepts -- a new COM, the
> realization that C++ cause problems with mixed languages, and Microsoft's
> desperation to do something remotely interesting for a change (still waiting
> for "something original for a change").
You are saying that the Clippy wasn't originally and truly annoying? :-)
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