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Re: About .NET

• Posted by Tommy Carlier <tommy.carlier at pandora.be> Jul 28, 2004
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Philip Deets wrote:
> 
> The next version of Windows will be coming in about two years.  This version
> will have
> an entirely new programming model using the .NET platform.  
> To those of you who are not famaliar with .NET, it is similar to Java in that
> it uses
> a virtual machine to run the program.  One of its key advantages over Java
> however,
> is that you can use it in a variety of programming languages, not just one.  I
> thing
> there are over 65 programming languages that can create .NET applications.

At work, we create .NET-applications in C# that operate over the Internet
(client/server), and I have to say: it's very cool. A lot of what you need is
already in the base class libraries: networking, database access (SQL Server,
Oracle, ODBC, OleDB, ...), graphics, XML, Regular Expressions, Windows Forms, ...
I've already thought of creating a .NET-version of Euphoria (Euphoria.NET or E#
?). A Euphoria-compiler could easily be written in C#, since the .NET framework
already has classes that let you create IL-code (IL = intermediate language, the
bytecode used by the .NET VM).
The problem is that .NET is completely object-oriented and Euphoria isn't. So
creating a .NET Euphoria-language wouldn't be compatible with RDS Euphoria. But I
think that is not necessary.

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