Crispin Cowan wrote:
However, where ever C made an arbitrary decision (either way is just as good) PL/M went the opposite direction from C, making it very annoying for a C programmer to use.
Does that mean it did not make any decision at all? What was the outcome?
Crispin Cowan wrote:Michael S Hines wrote: When you've been around for a while, you start to see the same features converge.. UNIX had quotas, we got Quotas with Win XP Server (well earlier, when you include the third party ISVs - as an add on). IBM had Language Environment (LE) before .NET come along.
I think .Net borrows most heavily from Java. Java in turn borrows from everyone. The "managed code" thing in particular leads back to the Pascal P-code interpreter; a kludge to make the Pascal compiler easier to implement and port. The innovation in Java was to take this ugly kludge and market it as a feature :)
I'm not sure that it can be blamed on Pascal. Microsoft was shipping Excel for the Mac in the early 80's as P-Code application and has been selling P-Code generating compilers since about the same time. Ever since, MS was strong on P-Code generating compilers.
Michael, let me please correct two more things in your comment:
1) there is no such thing as a Windows XP server (probably you refer to Windows 2003 Server)
2) Quotas have been native to Windows 2000 already (lets not discuss quota management now...)
cheers
Andreas
