On Wed, Jan 23, 2002 at 09:04:15PM +0000, Chris Carline wrote: > The key here is that Microsoft are trying to create a language-independent > platform; whereas the alternative (Java) ties you to the one approach.
That's not strictly true. Microsoft are try to create a language independant *Microsoft* platform; whereas the alterantive (Java) doesn't tie you to one operating system. MS want you to be able to use N different languages on your Microsoft box, but they most certainly *don't* want you to be able to run Visual Basic or C# on a Linux box, for example. C# and .NET is just another marketing smoke screen, just like COM et al before it. You can safely ignore both these technologies. Microsoft are going down, anyway. :-) If, on the other hand, Parrot fulfills its potential then it will truly be a cross-platform, cross-language solution. Much better. A
