Author: Russell Reagan
Date: 17:21:56 10/03/02
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On October 03, 2002 at 19:58:37, Brian Thomas wrote: >Not quite sure what you mean with that -- I think its success will be dependant >upon whether or not companies and developers support it, not really vendors. That's what I meant to say. I guess "vendors" was the wrong word. What I mean about it being like Visual Basic is that VB is basically a Windows only thing, and it's not exactly the programming language of choice for windows. Whenever someone tells me their a VB programmer, it makes me think that they are kind of a programming newbie. Maybe it's just a stereotype. Kind of like people that bought Mac's before OSX. The point I was getting at was that if it's a windows only thing, and it has a learning curve (ex. VB) then it seems to not be taken as seriously. You can look at things like java. If Sun backs it, it's considered a mature language, stable, etc. If MS backs it (ex. J++, C#) it's kind of considered the opposite, buggy, unstable, etc. I don't know if there are any real reasons for this other than the fact that MS has consistently delivered unstable products over the years, especially compared to unix. .NET isn't something they can brainwash people into being a part of like they can with Windows. They can put advertisements for Windows all over and hype it up, and people will buy it. Not so with .NET, because the people creating the software that would utilize it aren't computer illiterate like the majority of Windows users. That's the point I was aiming for. Russell
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