[Sussex] RE: The 'D' programming language

[Mark Harrison]

Common misconception about .NET, I'm afraid. .NET is a framework, not a
language, and I'd say that its only real competitor is J2EE.

Visual Studio is a .NET development tool and is limited to the Windows
platform and three languages (Basic, C++, C#)... well actually, J# is _sort_
of there as well, but let's not go there :-)

The .NET framework, however,  is available for a number of platforms,
including Linux, where, as we might hope, it's available open source. Look
at http://www.go-mono.com/ for one solution.

The .NET framework is likewise available for a "large number" of languages.

Regards,

Mark



----- Original Message -----
From: "Steve Dobson" <SDobson at manh.com>
To: <sussex at mailman.lug.org.uk>
Sent: Thursday, February 20, 2003 12:17 PM
Subject: RE: [Sussex] RE: The 'D' programming language


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> I think .NET has another draw back - it is limited to only one platform!
>
> Steve