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RE: umm..

There is nothing stopping people from creating their own version of the .net runtime..

But there are patent laws stopping people from recreating the APIs for the libraries. And as we all know the APIs are very important for interoperability.

... in fact, to my understanding, MS encourages this, and provided some degree of support to them..

From my understanding, Microsoft is only supporting non-commercial use for any .Net ports.

.NET is an improvement over Java in a few ways..

1) Garbage collection isn't forced on the programmer (ie. you can still malloc and free as you wish..). This is an issue in certain applications..
...

3) Code is compiled before being run the first time.. so it should (can't confirm this.. havn't performed any benchmarks, and apparently, by the terms of the EULAs for .NET technology, you can't release benchmarks either..) run faster than Java code.


.Net is an improvement over Java in some areas but just to clarify, points 1 & 3 are not improvements. Those are implementation specific details and depend on the vendor offering the Java VM. For example, Excelsior Jet offers a Java VM that also compiles Java to native code before execution. Also some vendors offer Java VMs with no garbage collection at all.

2) Can use ANY programming language that can compile to the .NET runtime..

This is an important improvement.
But I heard that Microsoft had to modify those language slightly to make it compatible with .Net. For example, some people said that the switch from VB6 to VB.Net broke a lot of old code.

Posted by: nrlz   Posted on: 11/16/03 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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