Re: "Why Perl is better than Java & .NET" article.

I thought I would stick my bit of pedantry here, .NET is not a language, it is on the one hand a system framework and on the other a runtime execution environment. Microsoft have implemented four languages that target the .NET environment, c#, VB, Java(ish) and Javascript. Mono lists an additional six languages, and I also know of Eiffel, Cobol and Clipper implementations that target the .NET Framework.

I like C#, so in further discussion I will mean C# when we say .NET

/J\

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Re^2: "Why Perl is better than Java & .NET" article. by tomazos (Deacon) on Jul 21, 2005 at 22:07 UTC
Sure, .NET is not a language. It is a set of libraries and a runtime. I think most .NET programming is done in Visual C++. .NET is however an alternative development target to Perl and Java, and the reason it is considered. Update: Article cancelled due to lack of support. -Andrew. Andrew Tomazos \| andrew@tomazos.com \| www.tomazos.com	[reply]
Re^3: "Why Perl is better than Java & .NET" article. by gellyfish (Monsignor) on Jul 21, 2005 at 22:14 UTC
Er, no. I would say that most .NET programming is done in C# (or possibly VB.NET - there are reasonable VB6 to VB.NET code conversion tools available.) ; Managed C++ is largely only used where there is an existing codebase that needs to be migrated to the .NET framework. /J\	[reply]