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From: Douglas G. Danforth <"Douglas>
Date: Mon, 22 May 2006 18:28:32 -0400

----boundary-LibPST-iamunique-894080107_-_- Content-type: text/plain Bob Walkden wrote: 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? When this question was asked some time ago I found that Hanspeter Mossenbock (with umlauts) had recently published a book. Since he is a Wirthian of great distinction, and since I have his Oberon-2 book and find it very useful, I bought the new one. http://dotnet.jku.at/ Chapter 1 is entitled "What is .Net?", and is available here: http://dotnet.jku.at/book/SampleChapters.html In essence, it is an internet-aware runtime environment (virtual machine) and a class library offering a number of modern facilities such as garbage collection, interoperability between languages and so on. Bob Bob, Thank you! 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