Re: Ada & .Net (Rotor)

[Georg Bauhaus <sb463ba@l1-hrz.uni-duisburg.de>]

Juergen Pfeifer <nospam@nospam.org> wrote:

Hm. This sounds as if CORBA, Distributed SOM, protocols, inter-language
operability and previous research have never been there before MS
invented the beast. As always....

: [.NET] is a language agnostic

to (quite) some extent

:  The
: virtual object system in the .NET VM is far more oriented to that goal then
: the JVM which was designed from the beginning for toasters and coffee
: machines.

A comparison to CORBA is much more appropriate I think.

: You should not identify .NET with C#. .NET is really language agnostic

to some extent. (Not a bad thing, but neither a technical sensation.)

:  provide an iinternet standards based
: platform and a component and programming model that makes it very easy to
: write services and apps for the platform.

apps writing made very easy...  O.K., the tedious parts are well integrated,
and can be done in short time. 
(database access, GUI, i.e. graphically framed text lists and text
buttons aka dialog windows :),  network integration, ...)
Does that make writing the core logic any more easy?

Is .NET the first component framework? No.
You don't know it? Seems like marketing power is still an issue.

Georg