Re: Regarding Dot NET
... while we're at it, let's not forget the 100MB+ overhead that using dot
net will cost you by forcing you to install it's bloated runtime library on
every machine your app needs to run on ... and don't even try the "library's
an integral part of the Windows OS" argument - anyway you cut it, it's a
huge VM that needs to support the entire gamut of the CLR's functionality,
whether or not your modest app really needs it - and M$ have made it clear
that there's already a successor to dot net in the pipeline so get your
porting hats on boys!
... oh and there's also the minor inconvenience that all your dot net code
is effectively Open Source whether you intended it to be or not. I like Open
Source as well as the next man, but I also like to have the choice. Yes, yes
you can decompile C if you really want to - a thief can break into my car
even if I lock it, but that's hardly an argument for making it easy for them
by leaving it unlocked all the time. If my car were like dot net, it would
have no locks. It would also weigh a thousand tons, but on the positive side,
it would be capable of laying subterranean cable under the ocean, in case I
should suddenly need that particular functionality while I'm out shopping 
Gordon
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