> > https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1324919/what-language-is-net-framework-written-in >
That's interesting, but it's a separate issue. My colleague claims that you would always chose to write an app in C++ for better performance in computationally intensive work. I counter-claim this is no longer generally true. I suspect that JIT'd managed code would have acceptably close performance to the native equivalent. I saw a YouTube video a few months ago (I can' find it now) where a lady spruiking F# told of a developer boffin she knew who took a massive financial application written with millions of lines of C++ and rewrote it in F# with a fraction of the lines of code, and it was easier to maintain and it performed much better. I feel she was indirectly pointing out that the game has changed regarding our old biases about languages, platforms and performance. *GK* >
