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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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