[geeks] Oh my god...

[Joshua D Boyd]

On Fri, Nov 29, 2002 at 11:06:33AM -0500, Dave McGuire wrote:

> >I don't know where C# is, but .NET is real for VB users and people who
> >want to write C++ code to be reused in VB.NET.  There is great 
> >excitment
> >from certain language camps since the CLR means that they can use the
> >favorite language more easily, however, their favorite language will be
> >bastardized by having to use MS's types.  It seems that their .NET 
> >plans
> >might be resting somewhat on .NET server, which has been delayed yet
> >again.
> 
>   Eh, I've never seen anything built with it.  Not that I would, 
> necessarily, but I haven't.

Yes, but we've also established that you haven't seen anything written
in VB.  I expect that most new VB projects will be .NET projects in the
near future, and whether you've seen it or not, there are lots of
corporations doing VB development. 
 
> >However, I still don't get what .NET is supposed to give us that the
> >combination of COM, DCOM, SOAP, and WSL didn't.
> 
>   Another acronym and another profit center for Microsoft, of course!

Grr.

-- 
Joshua D. Boyd