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From: dave <dave@dave.dave>
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Subject: Re: Teaching new tricks to an old dog (C++ -->Ada)
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Date: 2005-03-13T23:57:53+00:00
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Ioannis Vranos wrote:
> Jerry Coffin wrote:
> 
>>  The next obvious step is .NET, which de-emphasizes languages to the 
>> point
>> that .NET itself IS simply a huge library, with facilities to make it
>> easy to use that library from any (or all) of a large and growing
>> collection of languages.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> More precisely, it is a CLI compliant VM environment which provides a 
> fairly large, high-level, Windows-oriented API which is common for all 
> languages.
> 
> 
> However C++/CLI design ideals, are not only C++ to be used for 
> application programming as a first class citizen CLI (.NET) citizen, but 
> *also* for .NET library writing (managed dlls).
> 
> 
> With C++/CLI and VC++ 2005, C++ becomes the systems programming language 
> of CLI (and .NET).
> 
> 
> You may take a look at these:
> 
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/05/01/COptimizations/default.aspx
> 
> http://pluralsight.com/blogs/hsutter/archive/2004/10/05/2672.aspx
> 
> http://blogs.msdn.com/branbray/archive/2003/11/07/51007.aspx
> 
> http://www.accu.org/conference/presentations/Sutter_-_Is_C++_Relevant_on_Modern_Environments_%28keynote%29.pdf 
> 
> 
> 
> And a page of mine:
> 
> http://www23.brinkster.com/noicys/cppcli.htm
> 
> 
> 
> With C++/CLI, C++ has two worlds: The unmanaged world and the managed 
> world.
> 
> In the managed world every CLI (.NET) feature is provided separately 
> from the unmanaged world features.
> 
> 
> 

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