[Sussex] RE: The 'D' programming language

[Geoff Teale]

On Sat, 2003-02-22 at 16:32, Mark Harrison wrote:
<snip>
> 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.

Hmm.. but then again Microsoft have now applied for patents on their
"framework" which threaten the very existance of the Mono project or any
other platfrom implementations.  Try to keep up ;)

Most of us could have predicted such and action...

As for languages, they are more like dialects - you are still having
you're code forced into the structure of the CLR.  I'm not saying this
is a bad thing, or that .NET is bad technology - it isn't, but you
shouldn't believe all the hype and you should consider the bigger
picture.  Adopting .NET is just another way of locking yourself into
Microsoft - Java doesn't do that - you don't have to use _any_ Sun
software to implement it.

-- 
Geoff Teale <tealeg at member.fsf.org>
Free Software Foundation