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--- "Douglas G. Danforth" <danforth{([at]})nowhere.xy
wrote:
> Les May wrote:
> > Isn't it time to start asking why if Component
> Pascal has all the
> > advantages which everyone agrees about, including
> me, it has made so
> > little headway either amongst professional
> programmers or amongst
> > people who do another job but need to program to
> do it better? Is the
> > BB framework a hindrance or a help in increasing
> its spread?
> >
> > Note that this is specifically asking whether it
> helps or hinders the
> > spread of CP, and not whether you personally think
> it is the best
> > thing 'since sliced bread'. (As we put it here in
> the UK)
> >
> > Personally I am appalled to find that cars can
> have computers
> > programmed in C and medical equipment programmed
> in C++ is legal.
> > These are just two of the reasons I would like
> Oberon/CP to be more
> > widely known and used.
> >
> > Component Pascal integrated into VS, especially if
> it were a 'free'
> > Express version, would give much more exposure to
> the language as well
> > as being a viable programming environment for
> serious programming..
> >
> > Embracing the dot net platform means that
> Microsoft does all the work
> > of shifting things to 64 bit processors and the
> Mono project does all
> > the work of shifting things to Linux. How long
> before we see a dot net
> > port to the new Apple Intel machines?
> >
> > These things may not be here yet and the Mono
> project may never get
> > the Linux equivalent of 'Windows Forms'. But it is
> clear from the
> > comments and the links that progress in the
> direction of dot net is
> > being made.
> >
> > On the other such a shift would move away from the
> 'Oberon' philosophy
> > embraced by BB as set out in 'FFF97-Oberon in the
> Real World' (The
> > School of Niklaus Wirth - The Art of Simplicity
> 2000).
> >
> > Les May
> What actually is .NET?
> I looked at the documentation some time ago and have
> read some popular
> articles about it and was not (at that time)
> impressed by its goals.
> I thought .NET's reason d'etre was to suck up you
> data and put it on the
> web for everyone to see.
> Now, what actually has .NET become?
>
> -Doug Danforth
>
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In some way .NET is a component framework just like
Java or BlackBox.
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