i don't want to start a flame
what is .NET and why is it important? how is it different from what exists now?
i don't want to start a flame
what is .NET and why is it important? how is it different from what exists now?
so:
.NET is a group of objects which fits into any language that supports objects? what makes c# different than c++.NET?
what kinds of objects are they? (files? hard drives? computers? printers? etc..)
Who's devloping it under linux?
Doesn't all thier stuff get open sourced?
But back to .net its self.
What was stopping people easily intergrating different languages before? I mean as long as you can compile it to object code its just a matter of linking them together. Or you can build dll's in just about any language and call them relatively easily.
There has to be something more to .net than that.
>>2. I understand from nvoigt's posting that that every language that uses .NET can use it's framework. As far as I know, a language is nothing but a language. What is then meant by "a language which uses .NET"?
Your right a language is just a language and therefore has to be compiled. What I think is that .net (or atleast one part of using it) is the way the language is compiled. What I think they are trying to say is that microsoft is changing the way they compile programs so that the same compiled code can work on any machine.
As much as I hate to sound like a dooms day profit, I don't really see this going too well. You still need to have the microsoft software inplace to compile it "just in time" (isn't that a phrase they stole of borland's tasm debugger?). This is probbly just my personal bias though as I seem to want all my things to be as standalone as possible.
