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> 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
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