Is anyone using Python for .NET?

[Brandon J. Van Every]

"Simon B" <bowwnz at telstra.com> wrote in message
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> .NET is a platform, not a language. What you probably meant to say was:
> "C# is of course based on Java and a number of other higher level
> langauges". Completely true... Just as Java is based on Smalltalk and
> C++ along with a number of other higher level langauges.

I do tend to mishmash terms in a way that's annoying to a lot of "harder
core" programmers than myself.

> (http://grunge.cs.tu-berlin.de/~tolk/vmlanguages.html). There are far
> more languages running on the JVM than languages running on .NET.

"More," yes, but at a glance most of those look like academic tweaky
languages.  So to an industrialist, don't count.  I'll save the exercise of
determining which ones do count for some time when I'm more awake.

> My opinion on why MS did take the .NET path is based on the premise that
> they are only really interested in Operating Systems, which isn't too
> bigger a stretch. They want to sell operating systems, and part of the
> reason corporations don't upgrade to the lastest version until they
> absolutely have to (and even then, they often don't!) is because they
> have invested big money in software that will require considerable
> testing and/or modification and/or risk if the underlying OS changes.
>
> .NET solves that problem for Microsoft.

Does it?  What if in so doing, only .NET has value, and OSes have no value!
W2K with .NET, XP with .NET, makes no difference.  Stuff still runs.  But
they do get to sell Visual Studio, and they can patent screw Linux.

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Brandon Van Every           Seattle, WA

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