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Post #16,241
by jb4
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11/2/01 2:56:59 PM
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New Re: Microsoft listens
I don't think the .NET runtime is rich enough either. Its got some issues. But it at least acknowledges the potential for diversity in programming languages.


Yeah...their programming languages...
jb4
(Resistance is not futile...)
Post #16,242
by inthane-chan
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11/2/01 3:00:55 PM
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New That's the basic technique.
Microsoft is like a bulldog. Ugly as all Hell, slow, cantankerous, and tempermental, but once it gets a deathgrip on something, you need to kill it to unclamp the jaws.

They are pretty much always listening for some "percieved need" that matches their goals - and when they see it, they'll jump on it, especially if nobody else is.
"He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you." - Friedrich Nietzsche
Post #16,244
by admin
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11/2/01 3:02:26 PM
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New Python and Perl run on it.
Saw that the other day.
Regards,

-scott anderson
Post #16,262
by ben_tilly
11/2/01 4:54:20 PM
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New Perl only sort of
There are, shall we say, severe performance issues.

But yes. ActiveState has been contracted by Microsoft to port both languages to .NET.

Cheers,
Ben
     Cringely makes the case Re: Why nobody has beaten Microsoft - (inthane-chan) - (13) - Nov. 1, 2001, 05:33:14 PM EST
         To certain extent right - (JayMehaffey) - Nov. 1, 2001, 04:42:48 PM EST
         I expected better from him. - (Brandioch) - (1) - Nov. 1, 2001, 04:44:06 PM EST
             Pearls before swine. - (Ashton) - Nov. 1, 2001, 05:50:27 PM EST
         Microsoft will lie, cheat, steal and work very hard... - (gdaustin) - (4) - Nov. 1, 2001, 06:18:07 PM EST
             Woo-Hoo! Great story! - (jb4) - (3) - Nov. 2, 2001, 09:01:44 AM EST
                 More - (gdaustin) - (2) - Nov. 3, 2001, 12:02:00 AM EST
                     Very typical - (wharris2) - (1) - Nov. 3, 2001, 09:14:45 AM EST
                         Now that you mention it... - (static) - Nov. 4, 2001, 05:14:05 AM EST
         Microsoft listens - (tuberculosis) - (4) - Nov. 2, 2001, 02:47:08 PM EST
             Re: Microsoft listens - (jb4) - (3) - Nov. 2, 2001, 02:56:59 PM EST
                 That's the basic technique. - (inthane-chan) - Nov. 2, 2001, 03:00:55 PM EST
                 Python and Perl run on it. - (admin) - (1) - Nov. 2, 2001, 03:02:26 PM EST
                     Perl only sort of - (ben_tilly) - Nov. 2, 2001, 04:54:20 PM EST

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